Children's Fiction Humorous Stories
Bear for Breakfast / Makwa kidji kijeba wisiniyan
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada Ltd
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2019
- Category
- Humorous Stories, Native Canadian, Multigenerational
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781443175111
- Publish Date
- Feb 2019
- List Price
- $7.99
-
eBook
- ISBN
- 9781443175876
- Publish Date
- Jun 2019
- List Price
- $7.99
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 3 to 8
- Grade: p to 3
Description
Donovan is hungry for a special kind of breakfast . . . Makwa!
It's breakfast time and Donovan knows exactly what he wants this morning! Not eggs, not pancakes, not cereal. No, what he wants is BEAR, just like his grandfather used to eat for breakfast!
So Donovan sets off to bag a bear of his own, going on an adventurous hunt through the woods, where he stalks and is stalked by an ant, a squirrel, and a dog — but they are not bears, so he shoos them away!
When Donovan finally meets a real, big and growling bear, he quickly learns that sometimes breakfast tastes best when it doesn't have any teeth!
This dual language edition includes both the original English text and an Algonquin translation.
This story was inspired by Donovan, a first-grader in in La Loche, a community in northern Saskatchewan that Robert Munsch visited in January, 1990. When Robert asked what the kids liked to eat, Donovan said that he liked to eat BEAR! Illustrator Jay Odjick is a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation and the creator of the Algonquin Word of the Day series.
About the authors
El reconocido narrador ROBERT MUNSCH ha escrito decenas de libros para niños, entre ellos: Paper Bag Princess y Mortimer. Él vive con su familia en Guelph, Ontario.
Jay Odjick est artiste, auteur et membre de la communauté algonquine Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg pas loin de Maniwaki, au Québec. Il a créé des bandes dessinées, produit la série d'animation Kagagi: The Raven, diffusée au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Australie, et a illustré Vilains maringouins! de Robert Munsch.
Add bio for Jay Odjick
JAY ODJICK is an artist and writer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin community, just outside of Maniwaki, Quebec. He has created comic books and produced the animated TV seriesKagagi: The Raven, which airs in Canada, the US and Australia. He previously illustrated Robert Munsch's picture books Blackflies, Bear for Breakfast / Makwa kidji kijebià wìsinyàn as well asThe Ocean Goes on Forever, which appears in the anthologyMunsch Mania. He is thrilled to be able to join forces with Robert Munsch to bring stories about today's Indigenous kids to a broad audience. Visit him online at www.kagagi.squarespace.com.
Awards
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best booklist
- Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist
Editorial Reviews
Praise and accolades for Robert Munsch:
“Books by Robert Munsch are a staple of every child’s book collection and a favourite among parents and kids. They’re fun, frivolous and downright silly. And they just keep getting better.” — SavvyMom.ca
“Although his writing style is fun and exaggerated, Robert’s stories frequently have a deeper meaning and touches on some difficult parts of life . . . I think I love Robert Munsch more now as an adult than I did as a child.” — My Wee View
“From my experience, kids love Robert Munsch stories, and the collection of books in Mad About Munsch is no exception!” — Glimpse Reviews
“Laurel and Hardy, Holmes and Watson, peanut butter and jam — some things just go better together. Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko figured that out a number of years ago, and have been teaming up to produce silly, insanely popular books ever since.” — Quill & Quire
“[Munsch is] a kindergarten superstar he ranks up there with Pablum and Pampers in name recognition arguably the most published Canadian author ever, in any genre.” — The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Magazine
“Munsch’s parade of bright funny picture books has been a sales phenomenon in children's book publishing . . . And as Munsch books are requested by kids over and over every day in countless homes and schools, at story time and bedtime, the distinctive storyteller’s voice will undoubtedly continue to be echoed for years to come by parents, teachers, babysitters and whomever else young kids can get to read to them.” — The Chronicle Herald
“Arguably the most successful kid-lit writer in North America.” — Toronto Star
“More witty, creative and entertaining than most of what passes for adult literature.“ — The Globe and Mail
“Munsch is now as important to a whole generation of children as any television character.”— Quill & Quire
Other titles by
5 Absolutely Outrageous Munsch Stories
Siempre te Querre
Aaron's Hair (Revised edition)
Big Green Book of Munsch Books 5-Copy Signed Carton
The Big Green Book of Munsch Books
Sounds Like Christmas
Stephanie's Ponytail Early Reader
Wait and See Early Reader
Show and Tell Early Reader
Le lit en délire!
Other titles by
Munsch-a-thon (Combined volume)
A Robert Munsch Collection
Munsch-à-la-tonne
Vilains maringouins!
Munsch en folie!
A Bunch of Munsch! (Combined volume)
A Robert Munsch Collection
Bear for Breakfast / Makwa kidji kijeba wisiniyan (Tell Me A Story!) (Dual Language Edition)
Un ours pour dejeuner!
Bear for Breakfast
Un ours pour dejeuner! / Makwa kidji kijeba wisiniyan
