Beetle and the Bear

Little Kids-Illustrated Books

Author/Publisher
Scholastic

Format
Paperback

Pages
48 pages

Book Description
It's the first day of school for Beetle, and he's determined to take his bear with him even though his brother Max says that he'll get laughed at. Sure enough, when his classmate Horrible Henry sees the bear, he tells everyone. But Max has a plan that will leave Beetle's bear the star of the class.

Hilary McKay is a British writer of children's books. For her first novel, The Exiles, she won the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.