I'M GOING TO EAT A POLAR BEAR, happy eyes for Dad/Gran, the idea of fiction introduced to Junior

I'M GOING TO EAT A POLAR BEAR
KARL NEWSON (illus. Nicola Kinnear)
Happy Yak (non-affiliate Bookshop.org link)
$18.99 hardcover, hardcover

Rating: 5* of five

The Publisher Says: A little penguin is hungry but bored of eating fish and decides it wants to eat something different! An older penguin recalls hearing of a fluffy creature called a polar bear, so the little penguin sets off to find one. On arrival at the North Pole, the penguin can’t see a polar bear anywhere and eventually turns back home. Unbeknownst to hungry penguin, though, an equally hungry polar bear is following right behind...

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.

My Review: What a silly idea! A penguin, sick of fish, decides that the food they want is a polar bear...you can see already how this would get a five-year-old interested, starting with "polar bears live in the Arctic, not penguins!" Learning is sometimes the enemy of fun...until kids learn about how stories do silly things to tell fun stories that can't really happen. The idea of fiction has to be taught sooner or later...and a young lap-reader will enjoy the sounds of the book and how they feel like the artwork.

dunno 'bout you but I'd hang this one on my wall

I adore the art, I love the idea of the little penguin taking agency and making up their mind to take action, the entire exercise feels like it's going to set some seeds to stratify in a curious little mind.
Very much a lap-reader story, plenty of chances to instruct on natural-world realities, and good gracious won't you have a good time looking at this beautiful object! a win-win for St. Nicholas Night!