The animals of the forest are playing hide and seek, and one by one every player turns up. Every player except Bear, who is the biggest of them all and somehow the hardest of them all to find.

Lesléa Newman writes it in a rhythm a small child catches on the first reading, which is what turns a story into a chant they join in with by the third. Valeri Gorbachev fills each spread with a crow, a fox, a rabbit, a mole, a turtle and a frog, all searching, so the picture keeps working long after the words are known by heart.

Thirty four board pages, sized for a lap, built for hands that are still learning to turn one page at a time. Clarion Books brings the hardcover picture book to board for the first time in this edition.