I know a bear / Mariana Ruiz Johnson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2014]Edition: First American editionDescription: 26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385386141 (hc)
- 038538615X (glb)
- 9780385386142 (hc)
- 9780385386159 (glb)
- J'ai un ours. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Ruiz Joh Mariana | Available | 33111007674472 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this touching, hopeful story that reads like a modern classic, a young girl befriends a bear in the zoo. He comes from far, far away, a place he calls the Land of the Bears, where the food is sweet and the land is vast. It is a wondrous home, where the rivers are like bathtubs and naps last for months and months. But, alas, he cannot return; his new home is the zoo. And so the girl listens carefully as her friend remembers, and she imagines a world of freedom, vast and sweet.
Using a gentle tone, spare language, and gorgeous illustrations, Mariana Ruiz Johnson reminds young readers that being a good listener is what makes for a good friend.
"Originally published in France as J'ai un Ours by Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse, Paris, France, in 2011"--Title page verso.
Each time a girl visits a bear in a zoo, she listens to his tales of the vast and wondrous Land of the Bears, his home that he will never see again.
Ages 3-7.