Bear Hunt! Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

WOOF! WOOF! "WHAT DO YOU SEE, BISCUIT?"

Biscuit keeps woofing and looking up. Does he see a bird? A butterfly?

No! It's a tiny Teddy Bear on the fence post. Biscuit and the girl look around. Puddles the terrier is getting a brushing. But it's not his Teddy. And Shaggy Sam is chewing his stick. Surely it's not his bear either.

"SOMEONE LOST A TEDDY BEAR! WHO?"

Woof! Biscuit sees that there are a big truck in the driveway and a lot of big boxes sitting around on the neighbors' lawn. And then Biscuit hears and then spies a toddler in a stroller crying! That's a CLUE!

WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!

"IS THIS YOUR TEDDY BEAR, LITTLE BOY?"

Case closed! The mystery of the missing Teddy is solved, in Alyssa Satin Capucilli's Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear (My First I Can Read) (HarperCollins), in another My First I-Can-Read book for rookie readers.

Charmingly illustrated by artist Pat Schorie, this one is a great starter for youngsters just beginning to read for themselves, and though it is a far cry from Sherlock Holmes, this one has all the right stuff--illustrations that foreshadow the text as they attract and delight the eye and repetitive language that makes it easy for young readers to turn the pages and see what happens next.