Bear Bruno in the forest. Gunilla Ingves.

The collection "Bruno the Bear in the Forest" continues a series of informative picture books created by the famous Swedish writer and illustrator Gunilla Ingves. The book includes two stories: "Bruno the bear and the ants" and "Bruno the bear, Akke the frog and the little inhabitants of the pond".

In the first story, Bruno the bear walks through the forest, where he meets the ant Eric, who invites the bear to look into his house, in the anthill. An inquisitive bear, when he wants, can become very small. How? This is his secret! Having become the size of an ant, the bear dives into one of the passages of the anthill and learns about how a large ant community lives. Eric shows him the chambers of the queen, who lays an egg in front of the bear. Bruno is trusted to take the egg to the egg room, then he ends up in the nursery for the larvae, then he goes to the chrysalis room, where he accidentally ends up in a cocoon. Mishka is very interested in all this, but then his friend dog Lolla comes running after him. Together they go to watch the ants herd the aphids and extract the sweet syrup. The bear neatly records his observations in his diary. Mishka's notes and drawings take up four pages: an anthill in a section, ant "professions", food for ants, their friends and enemies, as well as other interesting information about the life of ants.

In the second story, Bruno the bear goes to the pond and meets the tadpole Akke there, who teaches the bear to swim and dive. At the bottom of the pond, friends help a caddisfly larva to fix the house and can barely get away from a huge dragonfly larva. Suddenly, the bear notices that Akke's tail has disappeared and he has turned into a frog. In the evening, they sit on a leaf of a water lily and see how a dragonfly larva gets out of the water and throws off its shell. In the morning, the dragonfly spreads its wings and soars into the air. Everything that he managed to see and learn during this walk, the bear writes in his diary. Four pages are filled with notes and drawings: Akke's life cycle from egg to adult frog, enemies of frogs, as well as insects and other creatures that he saw on the pond.
Bruno's bear books with tender illustrations, many details on each page and charming characters teach children aged 3-6 to understand and love nature.