Author: Robert D San Souci
Publisher: August House
Rating: WORTHY!
Illustrated by Daniel San Souci.
DISCLOSURE: Unlike the majority of reviews in this blog, I've neither bought this book nor borrowed it from the library. This is a "galley" copy ebook, supplied by Net Galley. I'm not receiving (nor will I expect to receive or accept) remuneration for this review.
This story is a comedy of errors, and not errors in the illustrating or in the telling - but maybe in the naming! B&N lists over twenty titles with this title!
It's the story of two bears, a brother and a sister, who are rather clueless about life, and seem to think that it's some sort of free ride. They don't apply themselves, they don't watch what they're doing, and they screw-up seriously when their parents cluelessly trust them to mind the house for a while when they go on a trip (the parents are clearly cubs supporters, so we all know where they went!).
It's one disaster after another, but to their credit, the children pull it together when they learn to pull together and take responsibility for their actions, bless their little furry socks, and they don't have to turn into bear-faced liars!
What began looking like an epic fail was reined in and mastered as the bears managed to get on top of problems even when the problems seemed to have run so far out of control as to be beyond salvage. That's why I recommend this story because it's got more tenacity than I have and we can always learn more, no matter how much we think we know already.
