Big Bad Bruce -- Bill Peet

<p>Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Bill Peet<br><b>Publisher:</b> Clarion Books<br><b>Published:</b> 10/25/1982<br><b>Pages:</b> 38<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.40lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.50h x 8.20w x 0.40d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780395329221<br><b>Audience:</b> Ages 4-8<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 4.7<br><b>Point Value:</b> 0.5<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Lower Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>19553 / Big Bad Bruce<br><br><b>Award:</b> Georgia Children's Book Award - Winner<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Bill Peet was the author of 34 books published by Houghton Mifflin. One of these, BILL PEET: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was named a 1989 Caldecott Honor Book. All of Bill Peet's books published by Houghton Mifflin Company, including his first book for children published in 1959, HUBERT'S HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE, remain actively in print today. <p/>In both his career as an author and illustrator of children's books and in his work as sketch artist and continuity illustrator at Walt Disney, Bill Peet created a menagerie of memorable characters. As he himself noted, I write about animals because I love to draw them. Most of my animal characters have human personalities, and some are much like the people I know. <p/>At Walt Disney, where Bill Peet worked for 27 years, he was a key participant in the production of