Bad Bears in the Big City (Irving and Muktuk Series) Book

Irving and Muktuk have arrived from Yellowtooth in the frozen North to their new home in the Bayonne, New Jersey, zoo. There they meet another polar bear, Roy, who tells them about his life outside the zoo. Roy goes home every night at six when the zoo closes. After a week of swimming, eating fish and the occasional muffin thrown to them by zoo visitors, playing, and taking naps, Irving and Muktuk feel bored and restless. They decide to explore life outside the walls and go in search of Roy and more muffins. Soon their escape is discovered and the zookeepers, the zoo director, and the police are called. Are these polar bears to be trusted?

Publishers Weekly

Bad Bears in the Big City: An Irving and Muktuk Story by Daniel Pinkwater, illus. by Jill Pinkwater, finds the muffin-thieving polar bears sent in shackles from their home in Yellowtooth to the Bayonne, N.J., zoo. A note from Yellowtooth's Officer Bunny ("We hope you enjoy our bears. Remember, they are not to be trusted!") ensures that the bears are confined to the zoo, but the muffin factory next door provides too great a temptation. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.