This highly imaginative book features a beautiful little girl who is pretending to be a bear as she goes around the house. The narrative voice is the link between what we as the reader sees and what she is imagining. On the first page, we see her hiding under a tent made of blankets, with another blanket, brown and heavy, draped around her to be her fur. “You’re a gruff bear, with fleas – a grump, with a hump between your shoulders. Scramble from your hidden ledge – hidden by a bramble hedge – and squeeze between the boulders.” She … Continue reading →