Roosevelt Bears Abroad

Two enormous, guileless bears from the American Wild West set loose in European high society. What could possibly go wrong? Seymour Eaton's sequel sends his beloved Roosevelt Bears roaming through London, Paris, and beyond, where their outsized enthusiasm and complete ignorance of continental manners create magnificent chaos. Written in bouncy, read-aloud verse, the book derives its humor from the collision between crude American charm and dignified Old World culture. The bears don't visit Europe - they blunder through it, offending aristocrats, mistaking statues for people, and generally behaving like enormous, lovable idiots. It's cheerful transatlantic silliness that still works because some things never change: watching confident fools dismantle pretension is always funny. The rhymes snap with energy, making this ideal for shared reading.