Big bad Bruce

Locations
Call Number: E PEE, Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Peet, Bill
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E PEE	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Peet, Bill	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Youth level.
Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A Comeuppance submitted by FordAlpha on June 27, 2018, 10:09pm I read a lot of Bill Peet books growing up, and I enjoy reading them to my kids now--although I confess that their length often exceeds my read-aloud energy. Concise they are not. Anyway, "Big Bad Bruce" was one of my favorites then, and it's one of my favorites now. A bear (Bruce) gets his comeuppance for bullying the small forest animals when a local witch bakes him a blueberry pie using her favorite recipe--a shrinking spell. Reduced to the size of a chipmunk, Bruce learns what it's like to be hounded by larger creatures until the witch, who's really quite nice, rescues him and takes him home to keep as a pet. I suppose my only complaint is that Bruce doesn't actually learn his lesson; tiny as he is, he still gets his kicks bullying insects in the garden. Bill Peet was a Disney animation artist, and his colored-pencil illustrations are always excellent, particularly the animals' expressions.

Distinctive Author submitted by jibkidder on June 21, 2022, 7:39am Peet is a singular author with a feel for words and a great drawing style. This tale with some witchy magic recalls, at times, the work of William Stieg, but with a very different voice.