Underwear!

by Jennifer Harney

Overview

Bare bear! Stop right there! Underwear!
Under where?

So begins the dialogue between a tired bear dad and a rambunctious bear cub who would rather play with his tighty whities than get into bed. Underwear makes great hair. It can even turn one into a superber, or a goggle-wearing swimming bear. But beware of a big scare! Rhymes, homonyms, and conjunctions abound in this book that could be used to teach reading, but its primary purpose is to make bedtime fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781368027939
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/02/2019
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	529,212
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD310L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jenn Harney is the author-illustrator of Underwear! and Swim Swim Sink. She has also illustrated Wanda Seasongood and the Mostly True Secret as well as the Hazy Bloom chapter book series by Jennifer Hamburg and the picture books How to Become a Knight (in Ten Easy Lessons) by Todd Tarpley and Never Trumpet with a Crumpet by Amy Gibson. Jenn lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, her daughter, a corgi named Steve, and the ghost of the oldest living goldfish in North America. Follow her on Twitter @jennharknee.

Editorial Reviews

07/19/2019

PreS-Gr 1-A small bear finishes his bath and is about to get dressed. His bespectacled papa gets exasperated when his little cub would rather play with his pair of underwear than wear them. First he pretends to not find them, with a play on words,"under where?," "under there?," and so forth. The rambunctious little bear then decides underwear makes awesome hair, a superhero mask, and other imaginative play items. When Papa hears playful chaos coming from the bathroom, he storms in. A crouching little bear pounces on him, bare bear bottom and underwear on his head. Eventually, Papa gets the little bear dressed and into bed. Cute, digitally rendered cartoon characters are surrounded by wiggles, splatters, and other textures to convey an abundance of action and energy. Edge-to-edge colored pages with a white, blocky font exemplifies the humorously cartoonish antics. Concise, rhyming wordplay flows easily. VERDICT Young readers will delight in the small bear's high spirits and all readers will have their funny bones tickled.-Mindy Hiatt, Salt Lake County Library Services

School Library Journal

*"The cub's unbridled enthusiasm and vibrant imagination will keep kids in stitches . . . Facial features and body language are spot-on, and the rollicking rhymes are the icing on the cake. This will be a riotous hit wherever it's shared . . ."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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