Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears

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Summary: Twin Polars; bring the muffins
Review: It's got polar bears posing as penguins. It's got polar bears posing as girl scouts. The primary law enforcement officer is a bunny. The setting is a town called Yellowtooth.

Welcome to the twisted and hilarious world of Daniel Pinkwater. Irving and Muktuk are polar bears who want to steal muffins. In jerky and often funny prose, Pinkwater describes their repeated near-exploits. Always foiled by the bunny (who even utilizes a helicopter and a net to capture the villains), Irving and Muktuk never flag in their optimism or their enthusiasm for thievery. In the end, the ursine ladrónes are shipped off to Bayonne, New Jersey (The Muffin Capitol of the World, in case you failed to notice).

This is Pinkwater at his near-best (I still prefer the novel LIZARD MUSIC), so put your hands on a copy of IRVING AND MUKTUK today. You'll laugh until your ribs ache.