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Bruce's Big Move

A Disney Hyperion E-book With Audio

#3 in series

ebook
2 of 2 copies available
2 of 2 copies available
After the events of Hotel Bruce, our favorite curmudgeonly bear shares his home with not only his four geese, but three rowdy mice besides! Fed up with their shenanigans, Bruce sets off to find a rodent-free household. But as usual, nothing goes quite according to plan. . . A hilarious sequel for fans of the previous Bruce books, as well as a standalone discovery for new readers, Bruce's next reluctant adventure is sure to keep kids giggling.
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    • Kirkus

      Mother Bruce wants to escape the size--and chaos--of his family.This crotchety, black-and-dark-indigo bear now fully accepts that the four goslings he accidentally adopted (Mother Bruce, 2015) are his forever children and that, although they're grown now, they're not leaving home. They even sleep on top of him. He can't accept, however, the presence of three mice who once commandeered his house for a hotel (Hotel Bruce, 2016). They're adults (one has a mustache), but they sleep atop Bruce with the geese; they soak in Bruce's teacup; they rope the geese into messy games (literally, during one cowboy lasso scene). Direct marching orders fail. Poor, misanthropic Bruce! Higgins conveys sympathy for Bruce (who is both male and a mother, no explanation particularly needed), beset by noise and chaos, without censuring the mice too harshly. Bruce's idea to move house and leave the mice behind is a failure, naturally. Readers can sympathize with grumpy Bruce while also cheering for the geese, nonverbal but expressive, when their beloved mice siblings return. The illustrations feature deft, fine-lined details and luminous, softly-textured backgrounds. The full-bleed spreads are hilarious, especially one showing everyone in a bubble bath, Bruce scowling, suds overflowing, the geese and mice sporting snorkels and masks.A funny, delightful argument both for and against a hermitic life. (Picture book. 3-6)

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    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2018
      Having given up on trying to get rid of his mice houseguests, curmudgeonly "mother bear" Bruce finds a new house for just himself and his four geese--or so he thinks. Like its predecessors (Mother Bruce; Hotel Bruce), this book's humor derives from the clash between narration and art (e.g., "Bruce was happy" shows him looking only fractionally less annoyed than usual).

      (Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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  • OverDrive Read

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:1.9
  • Lexile® Measure:510
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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