This book is about a friend borrowing stuff and never giving it back. It’s also about making friends. This is the second Norton and the bear book. In the first book bear was copying everything Norton was doing. Now they’re living next-door to each other, and bear is borrowing all of Norton’s stuff. What Bear really needs is a friend he can borrow all the time, not stuff. These books have grown on me. I think they have nice appealing power. Are they the best books ever written, no. But I think children will like them and understand the messages within the pages.