Logline:
Nobody Listens to Andrew! (Repeatedly.)
London:
There's a bear in Andrew's bed but nobody listens to Andrew. If I had to pick out of all of them, I think I would pick Ruthy as my favorite. Or Andrew.
Ben:
Always spirited when I read the book, but its hackneyed to the last (I mean, a black bear doesn't, you know, eat all of them?) Also, I picture Andrew betraying the goodwill he earned by having been wronged a la the changeover at the end: "Next Time We Will Listen to Andrew..." I picture him being even more encourageable than he already is. This book is, after all, "The Boy Who Who Cried Wolf" without *seeing* the previous crying. It's merely implied that everyone regards him as a pest.
What it would be like to be in this book:
If I was Andrew, London says, I would have been more annoying, perhaps even hurting everybody to get their attention. Ben would likely have been the bumbling zookeeper, tasked with herding a bear out of a two-story house and to the local zoo using only a tiny net and an awkward, seemingly useless cage. And I would have been eaten as soon as everybody turned their heads and the book had ended.
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