Kristi Jacobek

ISBN 1562472151 - It's pocket-sized, it features a cute little teddy bear and it's got a board book binding - all good things. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to add up to a good book.

Bitty Bear has seasonal clothing. Rain gear for Spring, a snowsuit for Winter, each outfit on its own page. The first page features Bitty in her underclothes and as you turn the pages the clothes are overlaid on Bitty.

Only the front and back covers are full pages; all the pages in between are an inch shorter. This is so that the head on the first page becomes the head of Bitty on every other page. This also means that the covers bend inward very easily. The text, by Kristi Jacobek is simple and short and the illustrations by Peggy Jo Ackley are nicely detailed and very pastel. Bitty is usually better than this, but this one is so easily damaged that it hardly seems worthwhile.

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