Big Bad Bruce is a story about a bear that treats other animals unkind. He meets a witch one day who he angers. She makes a magical pie that she leaves out for the bear to eat. He goes to sleep and wakes up smaller than a quail. The animals that he upset before were now chasing him. The witch found him again and he was sure she was going to make him disappear. To his surprise, she took him home and took care of him. He made friends with her cat and wandered through her garden as if it were a forest. I chose Big Bad Bruce because I remember reading this story when I was a child. In every story he uses word that would be hard for a child to comprehend but is able to make the words meaning easy to comprehend.
This story is about five lions that get stage fright. The owner hires a lion trainer that scares them so bad that they roar all night long and no one can get to bed. The next day everyone is too tired to perform. The owner lets the old lion trainer try one more time and the lions put on a spectacular show because nothing can scare them as much as the mean trainer they had. I picked out this story because I had picked up another story that was also based out of a circus and I wanted to compare them. Again the elephants are all the same in all the books when they come from the circus. They are identical to the book Pamela Camel and Ella. He also loves to draw lions they appear in three out of the ten books. The circus theme again appear in this book. The theme of this book is to believe in yourself, which is another popular theme for his stories.
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