The Verdi Bears Picnic is the first in Aileen Boyd-Otley's series of six books for children about the famous green bears of the Lake District. The books have a conservation message written into their plots and are about rural life in Cumbria.The Verdi Bears live in a small Lakeland village among human beings, in a house of their own and have human friends. The Verdi Bears have to eat green yogurt each day as well as the ordinary food eaten by human beings in order to keep a good green colour in their fur.The five Verdi Bears take their names from the beautiful lakes of the district. Old Man Coniston and Lady Windermere are the parents. The three young Verdi Bears are Grassmere, Buttermere and Bassy.