Nicholas Oldland
1) Big bear hug
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A huge bear is wandering through the forest - but wait a minute! Who's that he's hugging? A beaver? And a moose? And a bird? And a tree? Welcome to the world of Big Bear Hug, a contemporary fable about a bear who has an appetite for hugging everything in sight - even creatures that bears have been known to eat. One day, the benevolent bear meets up with a human. This human proceeds to do something the bear cannot understand: he raises his axe and...
2) Up the creek
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A bear, a moose, and a beaver who are best friends, but often disagree, have a trying adventure when they decide to take a canoe trip together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The bear, the moose and the beaver want nothing more this winter than to play hockey -- there's just one problem: the frozen lake they play on won't freeze! With their ice rink looking more like a swimming pool, the trio head home and wait for the colder weather to arrive. To pass the time, they watch TV. They sleep. They eat junk food. They even sing sad songs. But once winter finally arrives, will the friends be in any shape to play hockey?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged): color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Although he lives in the wild, this timid, wide-eyed moose is anything but. While his friends go puddle jumping in the rain, he cowers under an umbrella, and he looks on shivering when others go skiing: "Not this moose. Too cold." Sensing he's "missing out on something," the moose decides to "take life by the antlers" and sets sail in a boat that breaks apart in a storm. Stranded on a remote island, he not only summons survival skills-foraging for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One day, the three friends, a bear, a moose and a beaver, who loved adventure set off to climb a mountain together. But on the way there, they decide to make it more exciting by turning the climb into a race to the top. It's only after being sidelined by a series of mishaps -- a boulder tumbling down the path, the moose hanging off the side of the cliff, the bear hanging off the moose hanging off the side of the cliff -- that the three friends realize...