Mother Bruce (Mother Bruce)

by Ryan T Higgins (Author) Ryan T Higgins (Illustrator)

Mother Bruce (Mother Bruce)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Mother Bruce
Bruce is a grumpy bear who likes no one and nothing but cooked eggs, but when some eggs he was planning to boil hatch and the goslings believe he is their mother, he must try to make the best of the situation.
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Bruce is a grumpy bear. He's also a thieving and unscrupulous bear, and he likes to take eggs from nests ("He cooked them into fancy recipes he found on the internet"). But four eggs he grabs from a goose don't cook. They hatch. The four goslings that emerge follow Bruce everywhere, and no matter how he threatens--even when he bares his fangs and roars--the adorable big-footed goslings look merely puzzled. Little by little, the geese break Bruce down ("Bruce was stuck with them. He tried to make the best of it") and wear away at his dignity; in one scene he glares darkly beside a wading pool in water wings and flippers. Having passed through goose infancy and goose adolescence (complete with headphones) into adulthood, the geese refuse to migrate; Bruce has to improvise. Higgins (Wilfred) dwells satisfyingly on Bruce's forbidding scowls and tubby middle, and even portrays properly the change from gosling fuzz to adult Canada goose plumage. It's a droll look at conflict won by the underdog and--in its way--a book about unconventional families. Ages 3-5. Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management. (Nov.)

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E. B. White Read-Aloud AwardEzra Jack Keats New Illustrator HonorNew York Times Best SellerKids Indie Next List, Top 10
Ryan T Higgins
Ryan T. Higgins (ryanthiggins.com) is the author and illustrator of the New York Times best-selling Mother Bruce, which received the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor; Hotel Bruce; BE QUIET!; and Bruce's Big Move. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids and lots of pets.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781484730881
Lexile Measure
500
Guided Reading Level
L
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Publication date
November 24, 2015
Series
Mother Bruce
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV002030 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears
JUV002280 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Ducks, Geese, Etc.
Library of Congress categories
Bears
Animals
Infancy
Eggs
Geese
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
Honor Book 2016 - 2016
Texas 2x2 Reading List
Recommended 2016 - 2016
E.B. White Read-Aloud
Award
Indie Next List
Top Ten

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