You can ask a bear over to play, but don't expect him to know the rules! He'll bang on doors, stretch your favorite tutu, throw the ball too hard, slurp water from the sink, splatter cookie dough with his paws, and even scare your little sister. With this helpful and hilarious guidebook, you'll know just what to do when you-know-who comes a-knocking!

Danny seeks the advice of farm animals on what to give Mother for her birthday.

Katie is afraid of the bear that lives under the stairs in her house, until they exchange letters and she finally gets to meet him.

"A mother has several questions when her son tells her there's a bear standing outside the front door of their eleventh-floor apartment"--

A homeless bear living in a city has a hard time getting by, but when a little girl makes friends with him, his life becomes brighter.

From a major new picture book talent comes a deceptively simple and exquisitely illustrated story about a little boy and his bear and finding a place called home. Told with humour and warmth, 'Where Bear?' will capture the heart of its reader.

In Steven Kleinman's Life Cycle of a Bear, men are bears, wolves, starfish, and clowns, but they are also fathers, addicts, veterans, failures, and friends. This is not another book about how bad men have it. There are no heroes here. Instead, it is a book of vast imagination and steadfast intimacy, of compassion and clear-eyed dissent, about one locality and thus our world. Kleinman's reckoning with the mythologies and communities born of the violence of men is as tenderly wrought as it is tenacious and true. - Jennifer Chang