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    Bear for Breakfast / Makwa kidji kijebà wìsiniyàn: Digital Read Along Canadian Title

    By Robert Munsch   Illustrated by Jay Odjick   

    Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443175739 Ebook
    32 Pages | Ages 3 to 8

    Scholastic Canada Ltd | ISBN 9781443175111 Paperback
    32 Pages | 8" x 10" | Ages 3 to 8

    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!With this dual language read-aloud edition, kids can follow along in either English or Algonquin!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.