Alsenas, Linas.  Hello My Name Is Bob.  2009.  unp.  Scholastic, $16.99.  978-0-545-05244-3).  Gr. PreS-K.

Self-claimed “boring” Bob has a lively panda bear friend Jack.  Bob sits, hums, knits, dusts his plants, cooks, and does the laundry while Jack dances, explores the jungle, plays in a band, and surfs before he convinces Bob to go with him to get ice cream, go see the alligator swamp, visit the amusement park, and paint the walls.  But at the end of the day they cuddle on the couch.  Nothing in this is overtly glbtq, but the two charming bears grow closer and closer, definitely looking like a couple by the end of the day. –Nel Ward