You don't get rest, only compressed, when your brother is a bear.

The class cheered. And for the rest of the year, kids called ME, “Burpie,” everywhere.

The day my parents brought him home, someone should have told me to "beware."

Ryan Nusbickel
Author/Illustrator

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Ryan Nusbickel is a former TV news reporter, who somehow managed to win an Emmy, despite spending way too much time drawing cartoons in the news van.

As an award-winning feature reporter, Ryan covered everything from hurricanes to Super Bowls.  After hanging up his microphone, Ryan has since written and illustrated four best-selling St. Louis children's books, including "Who Moved My Gooey Buttercake?!", The St. Louis Night Before Christmas, Cloudy With a Chance of Toasted Rav, and The St. Louis 12 Days of Christmas.

A graduate of Wake Forest University and Syracuse University, Ryan and his books have been featured in numerous television, radio, and print journalism stories, including KMOV (CBS),   KSDK (NBC), KTVI (FOX), Wake Forest University Magazine, The Riverfront Times, Feast Magazine, and St. Louis Family Magazine.

Ryan lives in St Louis with his wife and two daughters.  You can reach him at [email protected].

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Sibling rivalries rarely get this hairy.  

Born with an enormous personality and an unquenchable thirst for creating chaos, Ben is the bane of his sister's existence.  So much so, that he turns into a destructive, mischievous bear in his sister's imaginative eyes.  

Big, loud, and messy, the bear destroys her toys, humiliates her at school, and even ruins her birthday party.  This is what life is like when your brother is a bear, she thinks. 

Just when she's about to hit her limit, a bigger problem emerges.  A pair of newborn twin sisters enter the picture, who just happen to be ... twin dinosaurs!

Former TV reporter turned best-selling author and illustrator, Ryan Nusbickel brings you the hilarious tale about what happens ... 
When Your Brother is a Bear.

I'm completely normal. My parents are quiet pair. No, the problem is that my brother, Ben, is actually a bear.

Librarians do not smile at you when your brother is a bear.

That's what life is like when your brother is a bear.

That's when Ben and I discovered that our sisters had become twin dinosaurs.