A Visitor for Bear

A Visitor for BearBy: Bonny Becker Illustrator: Kady MacDonald Denton Series: Bear and Mouse Cheery persistence wears down a curmudgeonly bear in a wry comedy of manners that ends in a most unlikely friendship. Bear is quite sure he doesnt like visitors. He even has a sign. So when a mouse taps on his door one day, Bear tells him to leave. But when Bear goes to the cupboard to get a bowl, there is the mouse small and gray and bright eyed. In this slapstick tale that

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