There's a Bear on My Chair

Celebrate 10 years of this fantastically funny rhyming picture book by award-winning Ross Collins about a bear that just won't get off a mouse's chair. Winner of The Amnesty CILIP Honour 2016Shortlisted for The Kate Greenaway Medal 2016Share this incredible gift edition with shimmering blue and gold cover with your loved ones! Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favourite chair and that chair just isn't big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to shift Bear but nothing works and tired old Mouse eventually gives up. Once Mouse has gone, however, that cheeky Bear just gets up and walks home! How dare he? But what's that? Is that a MOUSE in Bear's HOUSE?!Can't get enough? Look out for more Mouse and Bear shenanigans and other brilliant picture books from Ross Collins: There's a Mouse in My House We Disagree About This TreeThis Zoo is Not for YouWhat Does an Anteater Eat?This is a DogPraise for There's a Bear on My Chair: "This stylish, Dr. Seussian, laugh-together picture book delights in simple, scanning rhyme, funny lines, a surprise ending and Collins's sure, comical draughtmanship" - The Sunday Times

Ross Collins's primary 1 teacher, Mrs Spears, told his parents that he should go to art school. 13 years went by until he was finally 'old enough' to get into the Glasgow School of Art. Can you believe that? - 13 years. On graduating he won the Macmillan Prize for his first picture book. Since then he's illustrated over 100 books for children and written a few of them too. Several of them have won enormous glittering awards which he keeps in a box in Latvia. Ross's book The Elephantom was recently adapted into a critically acclaimed play by those clever people at the National Theatre who made that War Horse thing. When he's not creating children's books he enjoys working on character development for animation studios like Laika and Disney. He also likes walking in the Scottish glens with his dog Hugo, who is an idiot, and his partner Jacqui and son Ridley, who are not.