The Christmas Visitors

by Karel Hayes

It's Christmas at the cottage by the lake and the bears are busy preparing to celebrate. The human owners of the cottage, however, are in the city feeling glum. Until the idea comes to them to spend the holidays at their cottage. What follows is a set of misadventures as the family arrives without presents--they were left on the train--and without the usual holiday accouterments--the Christmas trees and turkeys are all sold out. But they are in for a treat as the cottage has been decorated by their unseen friends. So the bears unwittingly save Christmas for their human hosts, yet are still able to enjoy their own fine celebration. And, as with the other books, the bears do so all while cleverly avoiding confrontation with their human friends.

Genres: Christmas, Picture Books, Childrens, Animals

32 pages, Hardcover

First published August 7, 2013

Reviews

[Ursula · Rating 5 out of 5]

 
Another Christmastime treat for all ages! Fun illustrations for a grand time of the year! :D
 

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not the best book I've ever read (probably that was The Princess and the Pit Stop or Oh No!: Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World), but I did like this book because some pages you can be like, "Uh, and they didn't do anything but stare at the picture," because there're no words, so you can make up your own words for that page.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful illustrations of a magical visit to a cabin for Christmas. A family decides to leave the city and spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods...but the stores are sold out of turkey and there are no decorations. Special "visitors" come in the night and prepare the home for a perfect Christmas morning. The text is very brief, the story is told primarily through the illustrations.

[Miss Pippi the Librarian]

The idea of this book is cute! The summer cabin visitors (people) leave for the year and a family of bears goes in to celebrate Christmas.

The text is nice and simple for a quick readaloud or for youngsters learning to read. The story/poem felt a little off on some pages - like they were trying to force a a certain style of writing.

[Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the illustrations and the novelness of the story, but i couldn't make the middle make any sense. I'm sure the kids will enjoy the story. But the story wan't as good as I thought it might have been.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like all the others in the "series" this one is absolutely wonderful and the illustrations are stunning. A must read during the Christmas season!

[Rosa Cline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was more a picture book than a storybook, very little text. The story follows a family of bears moving into a cabin that was abanonded by people moving back to the city. But then a family move back to it for the Christmas season... so as the bear family move out the back door the human family move in the front. They both help each other without knowing they help each other. Nice illustrations.

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is Christmas time and the Bear family is getting ready to celebrate in the cottage until the humans who own the cottage decide that being in the city for Christmas isn't what they want. They need to be in their cottage celebrating! Cute Christmas story of how both families get the cottage ready and celebrate.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

In comic book-like panels, readers follow two families (one human, one bear) as they work together to celebrate Christmas.

Nearly wordless, this book relies heavily on its illustrations to tell the story. PreK-2.

[PottWab Regional Library]

A

[Debby Baumgartner · Rating 4 out of 5]

A family decides to spend their Christmas in their summer cottage but in the mean time a family of bears are spending Christmas there too. Basically a wordless book.