But Chapman’s large-format illustrations are appealing, with plenty of humor and motion, and her bears are amusing-especially Teddy, who really does look like a teddy bear come to life.Ī story with a youngster getting ready for Christmas with just his dad should be a welcome choice for single fathers to share with their children.Ī child with brown skin offers gentle, artful ideas about what to do with autumn leaves. The text is aggressively jolly, with sound effects and key words and phrases set in display type and lots of exclamation marks. A joyful concluding spread shows the bear pair on Christmas morning, sprawled under their tree, eating cake and candy and enjoying their unwrapped gifts. Teddy dissolves into tears at the accident, but father and son work together to repair the damage and decorate the tree for Christmas Eve.
The tree that Teddy chooses is too large to fit through the doors of their house, and when they bring it through the window, the top of the tree snaps off. Father and son work together to wrap presents, bake a cake and search for a Christmas tree. Teddy is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Christmas, asking his father endless questions in the manner of little ones everywhere. (This book was reviewed digitally.)įun enough to read once but without enough substance to last.Ī little bear named Teddy gets ready for Christmas with his father, Big Bear, in this decidedly cheerful British import. Fans of the crayon books may delight in another themed installment those who aren’t already fans will likely find it lacking. But the series’ original cleverness is absent here, leaving readers with a perfunctory recitation of attributes. Dot-eyed faces and stick legs on each object turn them all into comical, if similar, personalities. In Daywalt and Jeffers’ now-signature style, the crayon-written text is spare and humorous, while the crayon characters engage with each other against a bare white background, vying for attention. But they come together and agree that Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without all of them together. And Brown: cookies and reindeer! At this point, everyone is confused. Snow, anyone? But then there’s Silver: stars and bells. After spending the year being invisible, White isn’t giving up the distinction of association with Christmas. (Santa is depicted as a white-bearded White man.) Then White joins the fray. Green starts by saying that green is for Christmas. Familiar crayon characters argue over which color is the essential Christmas color.
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