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Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears (Irving and Muktuk)
Every year the little town of Yellowtooth celebrates the New Year with a Blueberry MuVin Festival. The festival is fun for all until the year Irving and Muktuk, muVin stealers of the worst kind, show up to crash the party. The bad bears are foiled by OVicer Bunny, but they show up again the next year, and the next, and the next. How will OVicer Bunny keep the bears away f...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
August 25th 2003
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published September 24th 2001)
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This book is hilarious!!! I could not stop chuckling. So absurd, so amusing--so clever. The illustrations...! Oh my gosh, it's such a delightful hodgepodge. Seriously, two blueberry-muffin-obsessed polar bears continually crashing an annual Blueberry Muffin Festival and thwarted by the incomparable Officer Bunny. What's not to love!? (The tale was enhanced by the fact that, owing to some delightful serendipity, Tyler made muffins the same day I read the book!)
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Lisa Vegan
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Abigail
This book is hilarious and the illustrations are wonderful.
The first thing I did when I finished this book was to reserve three other Two Bad Bears books at the library.
I vacillated between giving this book 4 and 5 stars and ultimately awarded it the extra star because of Irving and Muktuk’s final plan (in this book) to steal the blueberry muffins. I’m going to be recommending this to all my friends with young kids and to all the places where I’ve volunteered working wit...more
The first thing I did when I finished this book was to reserve three other Two Bad Bears books at the library.
I vacillated between giving this book 4 and 5 stars and ultimately awarded it the extra star because of Irving and Muktuk’s final plan (in this book) to steal the blueberry muffins. I’m going to be recommending this to all my friends with young kids and to all the places where I’ve volunteered working wit...more
Abigail
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Anyone With an Off-Beat Sense of Humor / Polar Bear Lovers
Recommended to Abigail by:
Max
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Irving and Muktuk, two bad bears with a craving for blueberry muffins and a penchant for larceny, are "no better then they should be" in this hilarious picture book from author-illustrator team Daniel and Jill Pinkwater. Their muffin-stealing schemes are always foiled by Officer Bunny however, who knows just how to defeat these lovable and bumbling "villains."
I owe my friend Max G. an immense debt of gratitude for introducing me to Irving and Muktuk, who have prov...more
I owe my friend Max G. an immense debt of gratitude for introducing me to Irving and Muktuk, who have prov...more
While I read lots of kidlit and YA lit, I rarely read picture books. But I couldn’t resist this after following some discussion of it on Goodreads. And now I think I’m hooked on Daniel and Jill Pinkwater. This book is a hoot! It's laugh out loud funny. You can tell, of course, from the last page that there is going to be more. I’m off to find out what these bears are up to next. I hope we get to meet Officer Bunny again, too!
The beginning of the bad bears. The kiddos are amused by this because the bears, they are not so smart, and even so, they manage to outwit the townspeople for a number of years with a variety of disguises and plots, foiled only by the bunny police. Lovely tongue in cheek humor, which is fun for adults and children on different levels. In the end, they are polar bears and they behave as any muffin loving polar bear would. And who among us doesn't love an illicit blueberry muffin?
Although this book was highly recommended by other librarians, I just couldn't find the humor in it. The illustrations are not really my liking, but I really don't think children will enjoy them either because of their confusing perspectives. The storyline was odd and I just don't think your average youngster will enjoy it much. There are a ton of books out there much better.
This was my first Irving and Muktuk book. The illustrations are very colorful and have a lot of funny details, which I liked. The book was cute, but I though the writing was kind of choppy, and some of the jokes were kind of "off." I love quirky stuff, and some of it was funny (e.g., the non-regulation Girl Scout Uniforms), but some of it just wasn't. However, I think kids about 4 or 5 years old would howl in laughter at the absurdity of much of it (which, actually, I do like, too),...more
Oh so very funny. I had to read parts of it aloud to my husband, who is in his 50s and normally reads thrillers - he laughed, too. I mean, start with the names - a Jew and an Innuit? The vibrancy of the illustrations - who knew the Arctic could be seen as colorful? Well, according to the bio on the back flap, Jill Pinkwater is confident her art is appropriate. And I agree. Oh, and the happy ending is perfect. It almost has the vibe of Where the Wild Things Are - even the most naughty chil...more
This is a great little picture book that has a repeating theme, in which the children will love. The two polar bears love muffins and will do anything and everything to bash an annual muffin fest. Great book, with good humor.
It's a cute story which will hopefully teach my three month old son about the dire repercussions of attempted forbidden blueberry muffin theft, but I think that the illustrations are kind of crummy.
Two muffin-loving polar bears make a yearly attempt to use stealth and subterfuge to get muffins at the Yellowtooth Blueberry Muffin Festival.
I don't love this nearly as much as Pinkwater's chapter books, but it still has his goofy sense of humor.
Anything about Irving and Muktuk is excellent!
Chandra
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Abigail A., Lisa, Kathryn, everyone!
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I had my doubts...but, yes, this is very very funny! A perfect fit for kids who love droll and absurd humor. I knew it was a hit when Irving and Muktuk showed up in (non-regulation!) girl scout uniforms! And the mark of a really successful book is when it is requested to re-read as soon as its finished! I can't wait to have more adventures with these two bad bears!
Chucked full of colour, wacky wording and two bad bears bent on blueberry muffins, this crazy book is wacky, arctic fun.
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My teens and I fell in love with these muffin-loving polar bears and their ruthless pursuit of blueberry muffins!
Very cute story (and it made me hungry for muffins too!).
Great fun read!
Rebecca Wright
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Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, although for more recent works that ...more
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