Peek Inside Benjamin Bear in Brain Storms! by Philippe Coudray

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BRAIN STORMS!

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P H I L I P P E C O U D R AY

Look for more of Benjamin Bear’s adventures in: Benjamin Bear in Fuzzy Thinking Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas!

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For Michael, my best English teacher Editorial Director: F R A N Ç O I S E M O U L Y Book Design: F R A N Ç O I S E M O U L Y & J O N AT H A N B E N N E T T Translation: F R A N Ç O I S E M O U L Y P H I L I P P E C O U D R AY ’s artwork was drawn in India ink and colored digitally.

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Original French text and art © 2009-2013 Philippe Coudray and La Boîte à Bulles. All rights reserved. Copying or digitizing this book for storage, display, or distribution in any other medium is strictly prohibited. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, please contact permissions@astrapublishinghouse.com. TOON Books®, TOON Graphics™, and TOON Into Reading!™ are trademarks of Astra Publishing House. All our books are Smyth Sewn (the highest library-quality binding available) and printed with soy-based inks on acid-free, woodfree paper harvested from responsible sources. Printed in China. First paperback edition, 2023.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Coudray, Philippe, author, illustrator.

TOON Level 2 / by Philippe Coudray.

pages cm. -- (Benjamin Bear)

Benjamin Bear in Brain storms! :

Summary: “A collection of one-page comic strips featuring

Benjamin Bear, a very serious bear who has his own silly logic for doing things”-- Provided by publisher.

935179-82-5 PZ7.7.C68Bc 2015

1. Graphic novels. [1. Graphic novels. 2. Bears--Fiction. 3. Humorous stories.]

741.5’6944--dc23

ISBN 978-1-

I. Title. II. Title: Brain storms!

2014028851

ISBN: 978-1-935179-82-5 (hardcover)

ISBN: 978-1-6626-6501-1 (paperback)

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Solution

The date

Too high!

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The big tree

The cliff Of course!

Can you break that tree in two?

Much too far!

This horse will help me jump!

It’s too far!

I’ll never make it!

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Heavy lifting

The target It’s heavy !

Don’t move!

Hop!

Why don’t you help your brother?

Hop! Hop!

Now it’s really heavy!

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