Oh, what a year! Ulysses had bested insomnia, conquered his hoarded piles of trash, defeated an infestation of fleas, driven out two bothersome wolves from his cave, and even learned how to fly a kite.Quietly in the background of his life, a tree grew. But Ulysses paid it no mind.There were more important things to worry about. After all, the tree would still be there when he got around to it, right? Read the story of a bear too busy to notice the world passing by.Each pair of pages features:-The story of Ulysses’ odyssey,-a relevant factoid (about botany, physics, or culture)-and a full-sized image to be colorized with pencils.This book has an emphasis on vocabulary building, and is intended to be read to children (it is not an independent read book). If your child does not understand a word, go to the dictionary with them and look it up together.