This behind-the-scenes look at life in a brothel is a wonderfully funny tale, told with a lively sense of the absurd and a rare and forgiving understanding of human frailty.
Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favorite chair, and that chair just isn't big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move pesky Bear, but nothing works. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up and walks home. But what's that? Is that a mouse in Bear's house?
When one brown bear decides to follow one yellow bee to his honey, he is followed by two greedy geese, who in turn are followed by three shy mice. When the bee reaches his hive he is joined by one hundred yellow bees, who chase the one brown bear, followed by the two greedy geese, and the three shy mice in this rhythmic story filled with humor and TROUBLE!
Cecilia is a only child that hears her mommy saying bear. Cecilia believes there is is a bear in the house. She hears her doggy Angel barking and thinks she’s barking at a bear. When daddy needs a haircut she finds that mommy gave daddy the nickname bear and she feels relieved that the bear was just daddy.
An overbearing older sibling can really be a bear, but the child in this understated, gently humorous story finds out that they can have their advantages, too. "I live with a bear," the story's young narrator declares. The bear is loud, messy, uncouth, and very strong (too strong!). For some reason, his parents treat the bear like family, despite his protests. Why can't they see? Then he runs into some bullies on the playground. When the bear ROOAARS with all her might and scares them away, he realizes that there are advantages to having a bear in the family. In a delightful twist, the narrator's older sister (the bear) appears, telling him that she is NOT a bear. But if she is, HE is too--because two bears are even better than one!