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The Bear In The Book (2012)

by Kate Banks(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374305919 (ISBN13: 9780374305918)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

review 1: Listening to a bedtime story about a bear hibernating a small boy falls asleep.This perfect picture book is a celebration of bedtime story time. The listener is very young, maybe 2 or 3. He names animals in the pictures and experiences the bookness of the book, its sharp corners and pages that turn. He gets distracted, gets a drink, and pays attention again. The art is completely child-like, especially the house with the smoke coming from the chimney, but the movement in these illustrations keeps you turning the pages. Irresistable.
review 2: THIS is the sort of book that should've won the Caldecott instead of soon to date hipster crap. The experience of being curled up warm in bed, reading with a loving parent, is universal and timeless. The interaction betwee... moren parent and child is exactly what all the librarians who genuflect thrice daily to the tenets of "Every Child Ready to Read" are supposed to be striving towards. And the art is beautiful without being fussy with texture that is almost tactile.When books about fish w/hats and cats w/buttons (no names here) have fallen into obsolescence, books like this will still be on the shelf, being loved by children and their parents. That's worth a lot more than a medal or honor from a committee full of clueless librarians. That's what children's books are all about. less

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