A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton

A Boy And A Bear In A Boat
by Dave Shelton

A boy steps into a boat and asks to be taken "over to the other side".The person rowing the boat is a bear! We are told no names apart from that of the rowing boat - Harriet - and the town the boy comes from - Cromer. So begins a very peculiar story about a very peculiar voyage across a sea with no destination in sight. You wonder how the author can keep up nearly 300 pages of this, but surprises are in store in the shape of sea monsters, storms, rocks and ghost ships. The boy and the bear help each other through tricky situations like near starvation and near drowning. They manage to lose three boats and end up using the bear as a boat, a suitcase as his float and a ukelele as a paddle. Will they ever reach "the other side"?

A quaint original story with loads of great illustrations.