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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2008
K-Gr 3 A newly illustrated edition of a 1972 title. A bear is engaged in painting a picture when two gentlemen arrive and announce, "Bears can't paint pictures." They have no satisfactory explanation for their opinion, and the bear continues with his work, firm in his conviction that "a bear can do anything he likes." The men then disparage the picture, calling it silly because they can't tell what the abstract painting represents. But to the bear, it is all the things he loves: a honey tree, a cold stream, a log fil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
A bear paints a picture that two "fine, proper gentlemen" criticize: "Nobody can tell what it is supposed to be." Re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More