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Bad Bear Detectives: An Irving and Muktuk Story (Irving and Muktuk)
When a shipment of imported Italian muffins goes missing, Irving and Muktuk become the key suspects. Everyone knows their weakness for muffins and immediately think they are responsible!Irving and Muktuk realize that in order to clear their smirched names, they have to find the culprit themselves. They disguise themselves, sniff out some clues, interview possible witnesses...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
August 7th 2006
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published 2004)
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Abigail
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Recommends it for:
Readers With an Off-Beat Sense of Humor / Polar Bear Lovers
Recommended to Abigail by:
Max
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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 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 Pin...more
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 Pin...more
Lisa Vegan
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Recommends it for:
all young children & their adults, anyone with a sense of humor including adults without kids
Recommended to Lisa by:
Abigail
Yes! This fourth in the Bad Bears series is my second favorite, closely following the first book, and definitively proves that the Pinkwaters are writing/illustrating these books for adults as well as for young children.
This is an absolutely hilarious book. Virtually every page had me giggling. The expressions on the bear’s faces and their body language overall are illustrated with perfection. They make the book 100 times funnier. The detective story with the included solved mystery ...more
This is an absolutely hilarious book. Virtually every page had me giggling. The expressions on the bear’s faces and their body language overall are illustrated with perfection. They make the book 100 times funnier. The detective story with the included solved mystery ...more
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Bonnie
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Recommends it for:
Alexus & Hunter; Milos & Bronte; Max; & any other kids in the 4-8 age-range
Recommended to Bonnie by:
Abigail
(Also recommended by Lisa Vegan - but only one name can be inserted!)
Bad Bear Detectives opens with a news item:
Bayonne Tribune
Dirty Works on the Docks
Bad Bear Detectives opens with a news item:
Bayonne Tribune
Dirty Works on the Docks
Last night, a large shipment of expensive Italian designer muffins disappeared from a waterfront warehouse. The muffins had been unloaded from the ship Gorgonzola Maru earlier in the day. This morning, the muffins were gone. Bayonne City Police found only one clue – a large fat footprint. “This could be the work of be...more
"This is bad," Muktuk says. "Make one mistake, and anytime a muffin goes missing, the coppers are all over you."
A large shipment of designer Italian blueberry muffins has gone missing.
Captain Hare is on the case and suspects those two bad bears, Irving and Muktuk.
Irving and Muktuk stand by their innocence and are out to prove they aren't the bears the Captain is looking for.
Charming and delightful.
A large shipment of designer Italian blueberry muffins has gone missing.
Captain Hare is on the case and suspects those two bad bears, Irving and Muktuk.
Irving and Muktuk stand by their innocence and are out to prove they aren't the bears the Captain is looking for.
Charming and delightful.
This is my 3rd Irving & Muktuk book. I don't know if these bears are growing on me, or what, but I actually enjoyed this one much more than the first two! The writing was much better; the jokes were funnier. Interestingly, the pictures were not quite as colorful, but I guess what really got me liking it was the greatly improved story line and the text.
The Bad Bears are accused of stealing muffins. To prove their innocence they decide to become the Bad Bear Detectives and solve the case.
I was trying hard to hold off on reading this until I read Bad Bears Go Visiting, which is waiting for me at the library. But I just couldn't resist after seeing the reviews by Lisa and Abigail! I was laughing out loud from page 2 (when the bad bears are hanging out in the Bayonne Zoo, cheating each other at cards). The Pinkwaters are funny!
(I grew up just 20 miles from Bayonne and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a zoo, and I know it isn't the Muffin Capitol of the world, but I'm gla...more
(I grew up just 20 miles from Bayonne and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a zoo, and I know it isn't the Muffin Capitol of the world, but I'm gla...more
Irving and Muktuk are falsely accused and set out to find the real culprits. Love these doofuses!
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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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