The Tangerine Bear - Softcover

Paraskevas, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064437140 ISBN 13: 9780064437141

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1900

Synopsis

In a second-hand shop window lies a little bear with a smile turned upside-down and faded fur the color of tangerine, but the bear is not as sad as he appears to be, because he has found a home.

About this title

About the Author:

Betty and Michael Paraskevas, who are mother and son, have collaborated on several picture books with a verse narrative, including four about the legendary Junior Kroll. The Tangerine Bear is their first book with a story told in prose. They live in Southampton, New York.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A classic premise, weakly tweaked. A teddy bear can't understand why no one will buy him, until he discovers that he's defective: his mouth is upside down. He ends up in a junk store window, faded by the sun, next to other damaged items whose tales of woe inexplicably make him laugh. Finally a customer does offer to buy him, but the owner suddenly declares he's not for sale, since he's ``the only family I have.'' Bear's melancholy vanishes instantly. In the textured, highly idiosyncratic paintings, Bear's frowning, oddly lopsided mouth gives him a surly look, and also gives visual expression to the story's off-center air. Stick with Corduroy. (Picture book. 6-8) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0064437140
• ISBN 13: 9780064437141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Paraskevas Michael