Brenda and the Lost Bear is the first book in the Nanny Bella series of Read-Me Colour-Me titles. Nanny Bella is better known as Stella Emwood a 77-year-old grandmother from Bedminster in Bristol. The book is beautifully illustrated by Bristol artist Jane Lee and children are encouraged to colour in or copy Jane's fantastic pictures.

Nanny Bella has been reading her bedtime stories for many years to her own children and then her grandchildren and their friends. Her young audiences like her stories so much they always ask why she hasn't had them published. So she has.