Curled Up with a Good Children's Book; July 2006
Five Stars!
Collinsfort Village is a great place to visit. This collection of stories featuring a bear, a griffin, and a dragon skips into the reader's imagination with playfulness and creativity.
The people of this quaint little community don't seem to mind that a seven-foot brown bear, appropriately named Bear, works for the telephone company repairing cables. Bear's best friend and roommate - or more accurately, cavemate - is a griffin with a twenty-foot wingspan. Griff is a successful novelist with a serious interest in creating culinary masterpieces. Their mutual pal, Dorian, is a dragon with an artistic flair and a fear of flying. Together, they bring a dash of fun and adventure to this charming village.
There is a perfect combination of fantasy and reality in these pages. While the animal characters retain some of their species-specific traits, they are each endowed with enough human qualities to make them appealing. Young readers will giggle when Bear plays hopscotch with a group of girl, and wonder what the library story hour is like when
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