| Specifications | 9" X 8.75"; 32 pages; Full-Color Illustrations |
| Author(s) | Daniel Pinkwater |
| Illustrator(s) | Jill Pinkwater |
| List Price | | US$ 5.95 |  | |  |
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About
the book:
Hide your
blueberry muffins!
Meet Larry. He’s an average
polar bear from the Arctic who just happens to take a snooze on an ice floe.
When he wakes up, he is in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded at the shore, Larry
gets a job as a lifeguard and uses his pay to buy blueberry muffins—until
the day the head lifeguard discovers that Larry is a polar bear. Suddenly Larry
finds himself jobless and, even worse, blueberry-muffinless.
It’s a bear’s life—or is it?—in this
laugh-out-loud tale of an endearing polar bear who stumbles into a charmed
lifestyle that other bears can only dream about.
DANIEL and JILL
PINKWATER have collaborated on books that address a number of engaging topics,
among them chickens
(The Hoboken
Chicken Emergency),
werewolves
(The Werewolf Club
series), dogs
(Superpuppy: How to
Choose, Raise, and Train the Best Possible Dog for You),
and,
of course, polar bears
(Irving and
Muktuk: Two Bad Bears
and the
Larry
books).
Independent studies have shown that kids who read Pinkwater books grow up
smarter than other kids. Adults who wish for the same result have been turning
into Mr. Pinkwater’s regular commentaries on National Public Radio’s
All Things
Considered
and have read many commentaries in his collection,
Hoboken Fish & Chicago
Whistle.
Better yet, who would want to miss the books he reads
with Scott Simon on NPR’s
Weekend Edition
Saturday?
JILL PINKWATER herself is the author of a
number of works of fiction for young people, including
Buffalo Brenda
and
Tails of the Bronx: A Tale of the
Bronx.
The Pinkwaters live in New York State’s
Hudson Valley, along with a variety of dogs and cats.
