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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2006), Edition: None, Hardcover, 32 pages
Description
Irving and Muktuk, polar bears at the zoo in Bayone, New Jersey, are the natural suspects when someone steals a shipment of imported muffins, but they decide to prove that they are not bad bears by finding the real thief.
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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
When you're known as "Bad Bears," and have a history of muffin-stealing, the authorities tend to lay every pastry-related crime at your doorstep. How can Irving and Muktuk convince irascible Police Captain Hare that they're innocent, when some "designer" Italian muffins are stolen? By becoming
Arguably one of the most hilarious of the Bad Bears adventures - and that's saying something - this fourth book in the series has some of Daniel Pinkwater's best dead-pan dialogue. "Make one mistake and anytime a muffin is missing, the coppers are all over you," observes Muktuk. "Of course," he concedes when Irving agrees that it is unfair, "we have made more than one mistake." Then there is the priceless exchange between the two while they are "detecting:" "If you were a bear," begins Muktuk, to which Irving replies "I am a bear! Absolutely hysterical!
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detectives, of course...Arguably one of the most hilarious of the Bad Bears adventures - and that's saying something - this fourth book in the series has some of Daniel Pinkwater's best dead-pan dialogue. "Make one mistake and anytime a muffin is missing, the coppers are all over you," observes Muktuk. "Of course," he concedes when Irving agrees that it is unfair, "we have made more than one mistake." Then there is the priceless exchange between the two while they are "detecting:" "If you were a bear," begins Muktuk, to which Irving replies "I am a bear! Absolutely hysterical!
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Awards
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (2006)
Original publication date
2006
Physical description
32 p.; 10.32 inches
ISBN
061843125X / 9780618431250