Meanwhile, the energetic ink-and-watercolor illustrations brim with humor while firmly establishing Mouse and Bear as friends new readers will enjoy visiting time and again. Read 83 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Celebrate curmudgeonly Bear and the irrepressible Mouse in this.

Francis Xavier School, Winooski, VTįans of the 2008 picture book 'A Visitor for Bear' will delight in this second offering from Becker and Denton… it reads as a well-pitched combination of humorous dialogue and omniscient commentary. Mouse, hiding in the cake, brings back the balloons, the party hats, and the gift, and Bears birthday is celebrated, at last, in fine and joyful style. A Birthday for Bear: An Early Reader by Bonny Becker A Birthday for Bear book. Fluent early readers will be pulled into this title by the appeal of its universal subject, entertaining characters, and the satisfying story with just the right amount of tension. A sprinkling of colorful, out-of-the-ordinary vocabulary words and phrases adds welcome spice to the narrative. With a perfectly paced story by Bonny Becker paired with Kady MacDonald Dentons slapstick visual comedy, A Birthday for Bear welcomes young listeners to. A Birthday for Bear is a wonderful story about a curmudgenly bear, reluctant to celebrate his birthday and his cheerful, devoted friend, Mouse, who will stop at. The winning stars of A Visitor for Bear (Candlewick, 2008) make a return engagement…Whimsical full-color ink and watercolor illustrations hilariously depict the yin and yang of enormous, cantankerous Bear and tiny, merry Mouse. Fans of the earlier book, Bear's Visitor, by the same author/illustrator combination, will be happily engaged in this newest and recommended story.

…The full color ink and watercolor illustrations are humorous and charming.

A Birthday for Bear by Bonny Becker