I Sure Am Glad to See You, Blackboard Bear

Martha G. Alexander. Candlewick Press (MA), $10.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-0669-5

Joining the recent reissue of And My Mean Old Mother Will Be Sorry, Blackboard Bear by Martha Alexander, I Sure Am Glad to See You, Blackboard Bear (1969) shows the boy once again enlisting the services of his ursine friend when the world seems to be ganging up on him. ( Apr.)

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