as he hunts for a cake thief in a hilarious alphabet book crossed with a whodunit.
There has been a terrible crime, Bear tells us. Someone has STOLEN a delicious chocolate cake! Bear sets off to find the culprit, questioning characters and compiling clues from
A to
Z. Among the suspects: a gingerbread man (
G) with a bite out of his head, a kite (
K) that may be above the law, and an octopus (
O) with grabby tentacles. But -- hold on -- are those
crumbs on Bear's page? Is that
frosting on his face? Looks like our narrator is a little unreliable! And it appears our culprit might be the one that Bear wants readers to suspect the least of all. . . . Author Eoin McLaughlin's sly, cheeky humor takes the alphabet book to inventive new heights, while best-selling illustrator Marc Boutavant's smart and striking graphic-style art matches the irreverent tone. Young ABC learners and older fans of funny stories will laugh out loud at Bear's uproarious "investigation" and his anything-but-usual suspects.