A BOOK FOR EVERY LITTLE BEAR WHO WANTS TO BE A BIG ONE - A warmhearted read-aloud for ages 3 to 7, painted by hand in watercolor, about a bear who wants to look scary, a furwash that is terribly cold, and the friend who tells him the truth every single time.
Fuzzy has tried every face he can think of: arms up, down on all fours, halfway up a tree, roaring at a squirrel. Floppy has been honest about every one. Then he meets Curly Bear, an expert in bear styling, who knows that every bear can look handsome with just the right furstyle. There is the furwash, which turns out to be a mountain stream and is terribly cold. There is the fluffing, which leaves Fuzzy fuzzier than he has ever been. And there is, of course, the snip.
"Bearsterpiece," said Curly.
What follows is a story about wanting to look tougher than you are, the friend who never once pretends, and a compliment that lands exactly where Fuzzy was aiming all along. A few words a page, room for one bear to get very, very fluffy, and under five minutes from beginning to end. Read it at bedtime, on a classroom carpet, or the night before a first haircut. For the shelf that already has Corduroy on it.
Written by Michael Vuolo, a New York City public school teacher for more than a decade, and painted spread by spread by Stephanie Gouveia. Floppy and Fuzzy began in The Birthday and The Peas and continue in The Bearcade. Sometimes the scariest part of a new furstyle is the furwash.