Spring Stinks - (Mother Bruce) by Ryan T Higgins (Hardcover)

About the Book

When cheerful Ruth the rabbit tries to share with grumpy Bruce the bear the wonderful smells of spring, they discover that spring stinks.

Book Synopsis

This pint-sized LITTLE BRUCE BOOK is perfect for fans of the Mother Bruce board books.


Ruth the bunny is excited to share the smelly springtime smells of spring with Bruce! But what will Bruce think of all that stink?

Higgins' sparse text is humorously juxtaposed with his signature, detail-packed, engaging illustrations. The mouse-sized treehouse and the despondent, dripping moose are especially delightful. Bruce's unibrow is practically a protagonist in and of itself. Ruth's exuberance plays off Bruce's disgruntledness like a sweet pear off gorgonzola. ---Kirkus Reviews

Review Quotes

PRAISE FOR BRUCE'S BIG FUN DAY

A welcome addition.--School Library Journal

PRAISE FOR PEEK-A-BRUCE

In the same league as any of the great children's classics: rich in detail, deft, smooth, elegant, and expressive. Part Are You My Mother? part The Odd Couple, all delightful.--Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR 1 GRUMPY BRUCE

Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

About The Author

Ryan T. Higgins (ryanthiggins.com) is an author and illustrator who likes the outdoors and cheese sandwiches. He is NOT a grumpy old black bear, but he DOES like making books about one--starting with the New York Times best-selling Mother Bruce, which received the E. B. White Read Aloud Award and the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor. Ryan is also the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling We Don't Eat Our Classmates. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids . . . and a menagerie of pets.