''Run for your life!''
''Take cover!''
''The monster is coming!''

No one knows why Teddy the Terrible -- the little local ''monster'' -- is such a bully. He picks on frogs, frightens the squirrels, and steals food from the baby boars. He's a terrible terror! . . . That is, until he meets someone bigger than him. What happens when Teddy the Terrible comes face to face with a big, full-grown bear? She gives him something that he's never been given before -- and his life is forever changed.

Ages 3 to 8. Full color picture book. Hardcover with dust jacket. 9-1/2'' wide x 11-1/4'' high. 34 pages.

Christian Jolibois , born in Les Yvelines, France, is an author, screenwriter, and stage director. He dedicated the first part of his life to theater and started writing stories for children when he became a dad. Marianne Barcilon was born in Paris. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Cergy-Pontoise and Bordeaux.