Author: Ryan T. Higgins
Illustrator: Ryan T. Higgins
Genre: Fantasy
Awards: TLA Texas 2x2 Reading List (2016), Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year (2016), IRA Teachers' Choices Reading List (2016), Wyoming Buckaroo Nominee (2016-2017)
Grade(s): 1st-2nd
Summary: Mother Goose Bruce is a hilarious tale of a bear who loves eggs, but pretty much dislikes everything else, especially cute little animals. He finds many recipes on the internet of how to prepare eggs many different and special ways. One day he finds a recipe that calls for geese eggs. So Bruce goes to a mother goose to get the eggs for his recipe. When he goes to cook them, they end up hatching into 4 baby goslings. Bruce tries everything to get rid of them, but the goslings think that Bruce is their mother and won't leave him. However, Bruce finally realizes that he is stuck with them. Although he is unhappy, he ends up taking the (now older) goslings to Miami every winter for their migration and his hibernation. Bruce's hibernation now consists of lazing on a beaching, relaxing and "dreaming of new recipes. Recipes that don't hatch!"
My Summary: I fell in love with this book after reading it!! I will definitely have this in my classroom and I feel like it will be a good book to use for an interactive read-aloud. Although this is a silly story, I definitely feel like it shares a deeper message with students that even though you may have plans in your life, sometimes things come up and your plans will change drastically. It will be good for me to use this book to explain to my students that it's okay to have to change your plans, big or small, and not to get upset about it, but rather find a better way to make the change work.
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