Super Search Adventure: Where is the Bear?

Review also includes:

Super Search Adventure: On the Trail of the Whale

Camilla de la Bédoyère, ill. Richard Watson, 978-1782099833

For younger animal lovers a pair of books that combine a story with information, riddles and puzzles and detailed pictures with things to spot.  Where is the Bear? charts the journey of Suki the hare on a mission to deliver a birthday present to a mysterious bear called Ping.  Her journey takes her across the world, through Arctic wastes and redwood forests, through jungles and rainforest following the clues and hints dropped by the animals she meets en route. Fold-out cover flaps include a roll call of animals to spot with wipe-clean boxes to tick, and at the end a panoramic map opens out to show the journey around the world.  On the Trail of the Whale is its watery companion in which Otto the octopus hunts for his friend Hula the humpback whale, his journey mirroring that of the whales’ migration from the warm tropical waters in which they breed to the cold Arctic seas rich in food.  The journey encompasses a rich variety of habitats from rocky seashore to kelp forests, from mangrove swamp and coral reef to the dark world of the ocean floor.  Colourfully illustrated with bold, stylized artwork, these busy books will repay many return visits to hunt out the wealth of detail and will be as good for sharing with a group as one to one.