Title: Big Bear Fair
Author: Grandma Krazy
Publisher: EC Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1-970160-57-4
Genre: Illustrated Children’s Book
Pages: 31
Reviewed by: Beth Adams
Pacific Book Review
Author Grandma Krazy has created a silly children’s book with an upbeat rhyme, an expanded vocabulary, and an astonishing theme in her book Big Bear Fair; which all is happening in the backyard of a young boy’s home.
As the young boy looks out his back window into the yard, he sees bears engaged in all sorts of activities while his mom is somewhat undistracted while working on her computer. A bear with no hair is sitting on a chair; then there’s one in midair; one selling dinnerware and one other playing solitaire, and so on and so on. The book brings to life the comical activities of the bears, as the boy’s expression is one of bewilderment. The mom continues with an apathetic disbelief, concentrating on her computer and simply acknowledging her son’s fanciful comments. It is when the son tells his mom about the “bare bear over there looking for something to wear, looking very debonair” that the mom gets up from her desk and goes to the window in astonishment! All of the bears are having a fair – right in their backyard. The book ends with the question “What would you do if a Bear Fair was near you?”
A child’s imagination is like a blank canvas, and Grandma Krazy has the experience of painting memorable, fun and happy thoughts which children love by being a prolific author of other children’s books and having many children and grandchildren of her own. Big Bear Fair interleaves with her other books a seamless silliness while enhancing the vocabulary of readers. This book is a keepsake for all young families to enjoy over and over, especially at bedtime when the frolicking of a backyard full of bears, having a fair, will invite whimsical dreams to follow.
Although bears are ferocious animals and should be taught to be avoided if encountered in the wild, if you see them at a party in your backyard, and if they’re wearing clothes, selling items, some having eyeglasses and playing cards, I wouldn’t worry about being eaten by them. The synergy of the text and illustrations of Big Bear Fair will work wonders to educate and entertain the young minds of children everywhere.
