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Hardback
Published: 27th May 2015
Paperback
Published: 28th September 2016
Board book, 6th edition
Published: 5th November 2019
Hardback, 10th Anniversary Edition
Published: 4th February 2025
There's a Bear on My Chair
By (Author) Ross Collins
Nosy Crow Ltd
Nosy Crow Ltd
27th May 2015
4th June 2015
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Kate Greenaway Medal 2016
Hardback
32
Width 270mm, Height 270mm
475g
Poor Mouse! A bear has decided to settle in his favourite chair, and that chair just isn't big enough for them to share. Mouse tried all kinds of tactics to move Bear, from glaring at him and scaring him, to luring him with a pear, but nothing works. Eventually, Mouse gives up. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up from the the chair and walks home. But what's that Is that a Mouse in Bear's house!
Ross' primary 1 teacher, Mrs Spears, told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he was finally 'old enough' to get into the Glasgow School of Art. Can you believe that - 13 years. On graduating he won the MacMillan Prize for his first picture book. Since then he's illustrated over 100 books for children and written a few of them too. Several of them have won enormous glittering awards which he keeps in a box in Latvia. Ross' book 'The Elephantom' was recently adapted into a critically acclaimed play by those clever people at the National Theatre who made that 'War Horse' thing. When he's not creating children's books he enjoys working on character development for animation studios like Laika and Disney. He also likes walking in the Scottish glens with his dog Hugo, who is an idiot and his partner Jacqui, who is not.