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Puppy is small and loves to play. Bear is big and feels grumpy. But the two unlikely friends soon become inseparable. All summer long they play hide-and-seek under the oak trees, fly down the lane on Bear's bike, and pretend to be pirates. Everything is perfect, until the weather cools down and the leaves start to change. Bear is suddenly too busy to play with Puppy. Now that Bear has started school, is he going to leave Puppy behind ... forever? Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner's gentle text and John Bendall-Brunello's warm illustrations combine in this memorable story of friendship.



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Larry Dane Brimner

Larry Dane Brimner is the author of 200 books for young readers. His books have received many awards, including the Carter G. Woodson Award, the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Book Award Honor, and the Eureka! Gold and Silver state awards in California, among other accolades. He also had a one-year stint writing children's programming for PBS. Born in Florida, he taught at the high school and university levels in California for twenty years and now makes his home in both San Diego, California, and Tucson, Arizona. In addition to high school and university, he taught at the primary, elementary, and junior high school levels. When he is not writing, he enjoys mountain biking, cooking, working with mosaic tile, wogging (a combination of walking and jogging) , and playing hide-and-seek with his schnauzer, Kubric. Larry enjoys visiting between 30 and 60 schools every year, where he motivates young people to read and write. His school programs are a blend of stand-up comedy, storytelling, and pro-literacy, pro-writing--he believes that everyone has a story. After one visit to Sandy, Utah, a parent wrote him to say that her young son now kept a special notebook because he was an author and had some stories to write. That's exactly the outcome he hopes to achieve, as he strives to impress upon children that their own lives are rich material for story--whether something fanciful, something exaggerated, or something factual. You can learn more about him at www.brimner.com.



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