Ursa Major

"Ursa Major: The Odyssey of Ulysses the Bear" is a hardcover collection of story books thirteen through eighteen in the Ursa Major coloring book series: "The Bear with a B Sharp Encore", "The Bear who went Spelunking", "The Bear in a four-button Cardigan", "The Bear in search of a Self Portrait", "The Bear with Writer's Block", and "The Bear swept up in Celestial Grandeur". These are multilevel educational and entertainment books intended to build vocabulary, drive curiosity and a thirst for science, and inspire. Each pair of pages features the story of the bear as told from a third-person perspective, a charcoal-esque black-and-white picture that can be colorized with pencils, and an introductory factoid intended to encourage further study. For a younger audience, it is best to read to the child and pause to explain new words, even stopping to consult the dictionary for definitions of unfamiliar terms. Older readers should pay more notice to the footnotes than the story.