Polar Bear Romp!

by Beatrice Costamagna (Illustrator)

Overview

Kids will love pulling the tabs to make Teddy the polar bear munch with his teeth in this interactive, quirky board book. Collect the whole Crunchy series with titles like Shark Bite! and Crocodile Snap!

Teddy the polar bear is very sad. No one on the ice floe wants to play with him, as he's too big and hairy! He goes looking for new friends underwater, but they can't understand him down there since they have water in their ears. Suddenly, he sees another polar bear who has fallen through the ice calling for help. Teddy takes a big branch and rescues her, and they become friends! kids will love this interactive board book with sliders that allows them to make the polar bear's mouth shout out loud or chomp on a tree branch!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499803457
Publisher:	little bee books
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Series:	Crunchy Board Books
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	341,834
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Beatrice Costamagna is a children's book illustrator from Italy. When not illustrating, she enjoys watching Pixar movies and listening to all kinds of music. Her other books include Shark Bite!, Dino Chomp!, Wolf Crunch!, and Crocodile Snap!

Editorial Reviews

2016-10-12
A polar bear looks for a friend.None of the arctic foxes want to play with Teddy the polar bear. He tries searching underwater for a friend, to no avail. He doesn't find one until he hears the splashing of a creature that's fallen through the ice, which he somehow knows just from the sound is a female—perhaps it was a feminine splash? Teddy jumps to the rescue, and the book comes to a fairly perfunctory end. The big draw are the sliding tabs that open and close Teddy's jaws on each spread. Little readers can make Teddy talk, cry, chomp, and smile. In a design flaw that must be unintended, Teddy's gaping mouth unsettlingly frames the unfortunate polar bear who's fallen through the ice, causing little readers to think perhaps that he is eating her. The sliding panels are more durable than most, but children with a habit of destroying flaps and tabs in board books will slowly wear these out as well. The illustrations are bland, with a white, gray, and blue color scheme that makes every page feel a bit ho-hum. The text is devoid of rhyme or flourish, plainly describing the events as they unfold with little flair. Feminist readers will grind their own teeth at the hoary damsel-in-distress plotline. This book has virtually nothing going for it. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews