Happy New Year, Booktomato fam! Who's ready for more fun book posts in 2018? Me! Let's start off with a new book for preschoolers sent to me by Running Press, Bear and Chicken by Jannie Ho.

It's a cold winter day, and Bear is on a walk. He finds a chicken frozen in the snow and brings him home to get warm. The chicken warms up but then starts to get nervous when Bear goes to the kitchen to start cooking what looks like . . . gulp . . . chicken soup! Chicken thinks he is about to get eaten! Oh, no!

It turns out that Chicken doesn't get eaten at all, and Bear and Chicken become friends.

This book is funny, and the illustrations are bright and happy. Just the thing for preschool story time on a cold winter's day!