cover image My Friend Bear

My Friend Bear

Jez Alborough. Candlewick Press (MA), $6.99 (28pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2017-2

The sequel to Where's My Teddy?, Jez Alborough's My Friend Bear (1998) returns as a board book. Though the type may be small in this new incarnation, PW said this tale about a sad boy named Eddie and his chance encounter with a great big bear ""will endear itself to pint-size preschoolers.""