{"product_id":"breaking-news-bear-alert-isbn-9781580896641","title":"Breaking News: Bear Alert","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis just in: \u003ci\u003eBreaking News: Bear Alert\u003c\/i\u003e, told as a breaking TV news report is now in paperback!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo bears awaken from hibernation and go to town—literally. During their visit, they eat at a diner, dress up at a department store, and stop a couple of bank robbers, all the while mistaking the townspeople’s terror for friendliness. The news-reporting-style of storytelling puts readers in the action and on the edge of their seats. Illustrations jam-packed with puns, clues, and jokes will have the whole family or classroom laughing out loud and eager to find out what happens next—will the bears terrorize the town? Will the cat burglars be caught? Will the city come to a grinding halt?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTune in to find out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe now return you to your regularly scheduled day.Curious bears trigger a media frenzy. It all starts when Jean Louis, the host of the kids' show \u003ci\u003eOur Furry Planet\u003c\/i\u003e,  pokes a sleeping bear. The bear rears up, startled. Jean Louis flees,  and the bear's not far behind. He and a pal perch atop the \u003ci\u003eOur Furry Planet\u003c\/i\u003e truck gleefully, with arms in the air as if riding a roller coaster.  Across the bottom of every double-page spread, updates appear in a blue  ribbon, just like on the TV news channels. Except here, the updates are  dire while the bears are clearly no threat. As people run screaming  through the streets, the bears calmly take in the sights. When two  terrified kids abandon their toy vehicles, the bears happily jump on.  (Mom's so excited to be on television she doesn't notice a thing.) In  hats and human clothes, the bears go unnoticed at a department store.  (Hysterically, the mail bear's outfit resembles Paddington's, while the  female's dress looks an awful lot like the Berenstains' Mother Bear's.)  Outside, the bears make a beeline for an ice cream truck, inadvertently  interfering with robbers making a getaway. In an instant, the bears go  from fugitives to media darlings. Biedrzycki delivers a genuine message  with a light touch. His Adobe Photoshop illustrations are bold and  playful, appropriately reminiscent of vintage Hanna-Barbera and a good  match for the slapstick story. \u003cbr\u003eFun and topical. \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChaos reigns in this mock televised caper, when a children's nature show called Our Furry Planet is interrupted by a bulletin about two bears on the loose. The brown,  cartoonish bears ramble along upright, try out binoculars acquired from  the frightened Furry Planet host, and appear oblivious to the panic they cause as they dance in the streets and visit a photo booth. Biedrzycki (Me and My Dragon),  whose illustrations call to mind Dan Santat's work in the Oh No! books,  composes the landscape-oriented pages as a wide-screen, high-definition  news broadcast, complete with man-on-the-scene interviews--a clueless  mother is too busy with her phone to notice the bears; a diner cook  explains his refusal to serve the \"barefoot\" bears--a scrolling blue  ticker with updates from a \"Skycam 3\" helicopter, and multiple security  videos. Two burglars and their cat take advantage of the fray, as seen  on video at a \"Paddington's\" department store, until the bears  accidentally foil the crooks and are deemed heroes. Bear wordplay, puns,  and children's book references abound in this romp, which comically  exploits our cultures of distraction and surveillance.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Biedrzycki\u003c\/b\u003e is the author and illustrator of G\u003ci\u003eroundhog's Runaway Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the Breaking News series, the Me and My Dragon series, and the Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective series. He has also illustrated many picture books, including Jerry Pallotta's \u003ci\u003eThe Beetle Alphabet Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boat Alphabet Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Freshwater Alphabet Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDory Story\u003c\/i\u003e. David lives in Massachusetts with his wife and three children.We interrupt this program to bring you . . . BREAKING NEWS: Bear Alert! Two bears seen entering Teddy’s Diner. Witnesses say they did not wait to be seated. Bears reportedly demanded to be fed. 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