Love Is in the Bear by Judith Henderson, Nahid Kazemi (Illustrator)

The bear is waking up from hibernation.   He hears music.  It's a bird.  

Soon they are singing duets.

The bird and the bear love each other.  They don't win the contest but they keep singing duets!

Love is in the Bear by Judith Henderson

This is a unique book.  It's the story of a bear and a small bird.

It's a first edition and will be published October 17th.

The bear comes out of hibernation in spring and makes friends with a singing bird.  Soon they want to try a duet.  He's a bass and she is a soprano.  They must practice a lot.

They do but when they go to audition, the bear disappears.

The bird finally finds him and and they have a talk.  Will the bear agree to sing?