Title: Let’s Meet Tederico Frederico and Augustus Algernon: Two Special Bears
Author: Margret Wallis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-5246-9653-5
Genre: Illustrated Children’s Book
Pages: 38
Reviewed by: Beth Adams
Pacific Book Review
This is a delightful story of two stuffed bears named Tederico Frederico and Augustus Algernon. These two toy bears come to life when nobody is watching. In the half-dozen mini-adventures within this bedtime storybook, author Margret Wallis tells of a series of situations in which the bears have fanciful capabilities. They get into mischief with a kitten in the kitchen spilling the milk and leaving a wooden spoon on the floor as evidence; they accompany the family to the zoo and wind up eating the sandwiches in the backpack perplexing the family as to how that could have happened; and even enjoyed a trip to the park to play by going down the slide. Yes, these personified characters are cute, cuddly and have a mind of their own.
This book is laid out into separate adventures, enabling the reader to go on until the end, or stop for the evening. This way it is easily paced to the attention span of the youngster. The story can be read over and over, because the nuances from the chapters offer a good repetitiveness to bring to life each of these amusing bears – with funny names.
Let’s Meet Tederico Frederico and Augustus Algernon: Two Special Bears has a very pleasant written voice, as if it were a lullaby to those special youngsters reading or being read this book at bedtime. Wallis even takes a moment at the end of each adventure to ask rhetorical questions to the children engaged in this story, bringing the book into relatable situations of which the children may be familiar with. The questions at the end of each segment can provide just the right impetus for beginning a discussion. The illustrations have just the right amount of detail to create a mental storyboard to carry the text of the book into a deepening enjoyment. All-in-all, it is an excellent and well balanced book which is soft, comforting and loveable, just like the attributes of what stuffed teddy bears should be. This book encourages problem-solving, good communication, and self-esteem development for children.
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