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Bad Bears in the Big City
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Bad Bears in the Big City Hardcover - 2004

by Daniel Manus Pinkwater; Jill Pinkwater (Illustrator)

Irving and Muktuk have arrived from Yellowtooth in the frozen North to their new home in the Bayonne, New Jersey, Zoo. There they meet another polar bear, Roy, who tells them about his life outside the zoo. Roy goes home every night at six when the zoo closes. After a week of swimming, eating fish and the occasional muffin thrown to them by zoo visitors, playing, and taking naps, Irving and Muktuk feel bored and restless. They decide to explore life outside the walls and go in search of Roy and more muffins. Soon their escape is discovered and the zookeepers, the zoo director, and the police are called.
Are these polar bears to be trusted?


Summary

Irving and Muktuk have arrived from Yellowtooth in the frozen North to their new home in the Bayonne, New Jersey, Zoo. There they meet another polar bear, Roy, who tells them about his life outside the zoo. Roy goes home every night at six when the zoo closes. After a week of swimming, eating fish and the occasional muffin thrown to them by zoo visitors, playing, and taking naps, Irving and Muktuk feel bored and restless. They decide to explore life outside the walls and go in search of Roy and more muffins. Soon their escape is discovered and the zookeepers, the zoo director, and the police are called.
Are these polar bears to be trusted?

From the publisher

Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to learn how to do it for fifty years. He has written about a hundred books, all but two or three of them good. People who own radios may know Daniel Pinkwater as a popular commentator and children’s book reviewer on National Public Radio. At one time, he lived in Los Angeles, went to a fancy private school with the children of movie stars, and ate in The Hat numerous times. He lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

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It is the midnight flight from Yellowtooth in the far frozen North.

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  • Title Bad Bears in the Big City
  • Author Daniel Manus Pinkwater; Jill Pinkwater (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 32
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Date March 23, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780618252084 / 0618252088
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.32 x 8.58 x 0.44 in (26.21 x 21.79 x 1.12 cm)
  • Ages 04 to 07 years
  • Grade levels P - 2
  • Reading level 510
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Bears
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002151192
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

Media reviews

"...this is Pinkwater at his best... The sophisticated flair of the kid-appealing wryness will please the most jaded reading youngsters, while the kidlike troublemaking and sheer silliness will suit readaloud audiences to the last muffin crumb." The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Starred

About the author

Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to learn how to do it for fifty years. He has written about a hundred books, all but two or three of them good. People who own radios may know Daniel Pinkwater as a popular commentator and children s book reviewer on National Public Radio. At one time, he lived in Los Angeles, went to a fancy private school with the children of movie stars, and ate in The Hat numerous times. He lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York s Hudson River Valley."
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