PB: Five Bears - Ages 3+

A gorgeously illustrated book about friendship, acceptance and looking past differences from the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Catherine Rayner.

Bear is walking through the forest, minding his own business when he comes across another bear. The Other bear is different. The two bears wander along, thinking different thoughts, and looking in different directions.

Soon the two bears come across another bear and then another bear and eventually find a bear stuck in a tree. The bears realize that perhaps they aren't that different after all and perhaps they could be friends?

Catherine Rayner studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She fell in love with the city and still lives there with her young family and a small menagerie of creatures including Shannon the horse, Ena the cat, and a goldfish called Richard, all of whom inspire her work. Catherine won the Best New Illustrator Award at the Booktrust Early Years Awards for Augustus and His Smile and has been awarded the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.

Catherine's other titles for Macmillan include Victor, the Wolf with Wories; Five Bears; Mini and the Hardly Big Adventure; Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep; Ernest, Solomon Crocodile; Solomon and Mortimer; and the award-winning Smelly Louie. She is also the illustrator of The Go-Away Bird and The Bowerbird, written by Julia Donaldson.

Recommended for ages 3-6.