One Potato Review

This author has a fondness for knives and other jaggedy story elements, both here and in two other books, Egg Drop and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (where knives play shady characters). Cutlery makes its appearance here when the eponymous bear has already sneaked into the kitchen in the middle of the night to bake friends, and dress them up in icing and sprinkles and candied peels and glacéd cherries, and start a circus with cookie bears all gloriously tumbling and shooting out of ketchup bottles until, well – Bongo the dog really likes cookies, and those knives are his foreshadowing. There’s a happy enough ending though – for the original ginger bear, at least – and it’s finally more memorable for all the spiky peril he has managed to survive.