bTwin girls staying with their parents in a Smokies rental cabin learn the hard way why humans should never allow bears access to our own food, scraps, and garbage.bpThis picture book for ages 5 to 10 employs rhyming verse and beautiful, heart-warming illustrations to deliver a difficult educational message about not feeding bears. Back matter provided by national BearWiseR experts explains the growing need for more people to become savvy about how to store food and garbage when in bear country and directs readers to BearWise.org for the basics of coexisting with bears.brpWhen bears get access to the food humans eat and feed their pets, they come to expect this kind of food, which is often much easier for bears to obtain than their natural diets of nuts and berries. Bears have a powerful sense of smell--100 times as many olfactory sensors as we have--so the tempting aromas of food and garbage are bound to attract them. Bears have excellent long-term memory and a highly evolved ability