Meet The Bears

by Kate Peridot, Becca Hall (Illustrator)

Overview

“Savvy and informative—equally suitable for both armchair and open-air expeditions.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Well designed for reading aloud, this informational picture book provides a beguiling introduction to bears.”—Booklist 

Nominee, 2025 Beehive Awards (CLAU), Children’s Informational Books

Finalist, 2023 CYBILS Awards, Elementary Nonfiction

Pack your teddy and your bear-proof lunchbox and join us on a thrilling international adventure to meet the world's eight species of bears. From polar bears to giant pandas, from spectacled bears to the asiatic moon bears, find out what makes bears so amazing. But what sort of bear is your teddy?

Includes a map of the world showing bear hotspots and a bear size comparison spread.

Includes all eight species of bear alive in the world today:

• Polar Bear

• Brown Bear

• Black Bear

• Spectacled Bear

• Sloth Bear

• Sun Bear

• Giant Panda

• Asiatic Moon Bear

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804535110
Publisher:	Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date:	06/27/2023
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	9.06(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kate Peridot is an author of both fiction and non fiction children's stories who lives in the south of France. In 2014 her story The Elephant Carnival won a Walker Books Animal Stories competition. She studied creative writing at The London School of Journalism. In her spare time, Kate loves to hike, swim and explore the world.

Becca Hall is an illustrator living in Cornwall. She graduated from the Manchester School of Art in 2014 with a first class honours degree, where she also won the Alumni Award for illustration. When she is not painting, Becca can be found surfing, walking her dogs, hunting for treasures or inside a cosy cafe with a cuppa and a cake.

Table of Contents

Includes all eight species of bear alive in the world today: • Polar Bear • Brown Bear • Black Bear • Spectacled Bear • Sloth Bear • Sun Bear • Giant Panda • Asiatic Moon Bear • A spread on animals that are mistaken for bears • A map of the world showing bear locations • A size comparison chart.

Editorial Reviews

"A parent and child take a worldwide nature tour to meet the eight members of the ursine clan.....Savvy and informative—equally suitable for both armchair and open-air expeditions."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-04-12
A parent and child take a worldwide nature tour to meet the eight members of the ursine clan.

The trip starts right up as, teddy bear in tow and following a page on which helpful travel and bear-spotting supplies are laid out, the two brown-skinned nature lovers board a boat to cruise past a polar bear in his icy setting. From there it’s on to watch a brown bear (from a healthy distance) as she snags salmon from a river for her two cubs, peer cautiously out of a tent as a black bear eats supplies carelessly left on a picnic table, and go on to glimpse a spectacled bear in an Andean cloud forest and other bears in their natural habitats. For each encounter, Hall provides both a full-page close-up illustration and a set of smaller images of paws, foods, poop, or other select details to go with Peridot’s descriptive and range notes. And for readers who might be inspired to undertake some bear watching of their own, the importance of staying safe is very properly highlighted, from a first-page comment that bears “are strong. And they can smell you coming from miles away,” to a closing set of cautions for proper behavior in bear country. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Savvy and informative—equally suitable for both armchair and open-air expeditions. (information on other bearlike but unrelated animals, list of bears by size, map, websites) (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews