{"id":154557,"date":"2023-05-31T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=154557"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:35:11","slug":"bear-and-bird-jarvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/bear-and-bird-jarvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarvis on His New Chapter Book Series, Bear and Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for a great summer read? Look no further than the latest release from kid-lit author\/illustrator, Jarvis<\/a>. Known for over a dozen stunning children’s books (Lazy Dave<\/em><\/a>, Tropical Terry<\/em><\/a>, and The Boy With Flowers in His Hair<\/em><\/a> included), the award-winning talent is back again with his first-ever chapter book series, Bear and Bird<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Jarvis tells us, “Bear and Bird<\/em><\/a> is all about the ups, downs, and in-betweens of friendship. It’s about the small things, the little misunderstandings, and the tiny things that bring you joy.”<\/p>\n

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The multi-book series starts out with this month’s release, Bear and Bird; The Picnic and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>, which includes four endlessly charming chapters, in which the main characters find themselves in silly, forgetful, funny, secretive, and ultimately sweet and playful scenarios.<\/p>\n

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“I just love sitting down with these characters,” says Jarvis. “Each story is a new way of getting to know their relationship. If anything a little bit funny or odd happens in my life, however small, I\u2019ll often think \u2018ah…this could be a Bear and Bird<\/em>.‘<\/em> So they\u2019re actually quite autobiographical in a way.”<\/p>\n

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The chapter The Blanket, for example, shows Bear happily snuggled up in his blanket when Bird knocks on his door and asks to watch the sunset together.<\/p>\n

“Umm. I would…” said Bear. “But I’m actually really<\/em> busy. Something quite important has come up. Something that needs my attention.”<\/p>\n

That “something” is “fluffy-fluffy time” curled up with his beloved blanket, whom he calls Suzie Woozie.<\/p>\n

One thing leads to another, miscommunication, jealousy, and hurt feelings ensue, before being patched up by the friends as they both snuggle up together under the blanket.<\/p>\n

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“I hope readers will see themselves in the book, have a few chuckles, and I hope they enjoy hanging out with Bear and Bird<\/a>\u00a0for a while,” says Jarvis of the 4-chapter gem.<\/p>\n

As for the best age to read this book? “I have been told it\u2019s a great book for those who are perhaps wanting to read more \u2018grown-up\u2019 looking books, and with 4 chapters and lots of illustrations, to me it\u2019s like 4 picture books in one,” he explains.<\/p>\n

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You can buy Bear and Bird; The Picnic and Other Stories<\/em><\/a> via Bookshop<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, and other places books are sold.<\/p>\n

You can also pre-order the next book in the series, Bear and Bird; The Stars and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>, which comes out in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for a great summer read? Look no further than the latest release from kid-lit author\/illustrator, Jarvis. Known for over a dozen stunning children’s books (Lazy Dave, Tropical Terry, and The Boy With Flowers in His Hair included), the award-winning talent is back again with his first-ever chapter book series, Bear and Bird. As Jarvis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,124],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154557"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154582,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154557\/revisions\/154582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}