2021 Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO) Booklist Selection!
Make bedtime bearable again with Hush Up and Hibernate--now
available in paperback!
Leaves are falling; a cold wind is blowing, geese are heading south.
Clearly, winter is coming. It's time for black bears to do what they
always do this time of year--hibernate. Kids will get a kick out of this
romp of a tale about a black bear cub that finds every excuse imaginable
to avoid the inevitable go-to-bed moment.
Will Mama Bear finally win?
Or will Baby Bear come up with the ultimate reason to skip going to
sleep?
"A lot of fun!" -- KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Parents who struggle to get toddlers into bed will certainly appreciate
poor Mama Bear's efforts to get Baby Bear ready to hibernate... Facts
are seamlessly woven... as Baby runs through a litany of delay tactics."
-- BOOKLIST
"This award-winning author has a knack for using simple, fictional
stories to keep the attention of young readers while slyly delivering
facts about nonhuman animals...a lot of fun." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS
STEM-based backmatter includes activities and Hibernating animals.
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Bears
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Yellow-Bellied Marmot
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Chipmunk
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Snapping Turtle
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Garter Snake
About the Hush Up Series
As natural as spring follows winter, children test limits. While
children try to become independent, their words and behavior often say
'no.' Your child won't go to bed, doesn't go along for the ride, or may
have a range of mealtime and other routine behaviors.
The Hush Up Series gives parents and children a chance to laugh at
themselves through the universal parent/child struggles while learning a
thing or two about our natural world along the way.
