My Lists
Featured Lists
Bears
By Krauss, Ruth
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06027-994-3 978-0-06075-716-8
- Publisher
- di Capua HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2005
PreS-Gr 3 Sendak's vision for Krauss's 1948 story is pure gold. The 27-word text is full of possibility: -Bears -&Under chairs -&Washing hairs -&Giving stares -&Collecting fares -&. - In both editions, the hand-lettered, cursive font creates an intimate, childlike aura, but the similarities stop there. Phyllis Rowand approached the phrases as discrete concepts to be illustrated. Her two-color spreads show fuzzy, brown bears in performance, with touches of gentle humor. Sendak sets a full-color story...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2005
In the first Bears, published in 1948, masses of Phyllis Rowand's freely drawn bears frolicked in minimal, elegantly limned settings, the stylistic juxtaposition suggesting the play between real place and creatures animated by the imagination. While adding psychodrama to the brief, descriptive text ("bears / On the stairs / Under chairs / Washing hairs"), Sendak also explores the line between fantasy and reality. His pictorial narrative begins on the jacket, where a new protagonist (the image of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
