Brave Bear - Hardcover

Mallat, Kathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802787045 ISBN 13: 9780802787040

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1999

Synopsis

Deceptively simple text and endearing illustrations follow a small bear as he bravely goes out on a limb to help a baby bird get home to its nest.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathy Mallat has written and illustrated three books for Walker and Company. She is an art teacher who lives in West Lebanon, Maine, USA.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this slight book, a T-shirt-clad teddy bear sees a bird drop out of its nest and manages to climb a towering tree to return it. Each line of text is spoken by the bear, from "Are you all right?" and "Can I help you?" (he's very polite) to "I'm not sure that I can..." and "We're almost there." Mallat (Seven Stars More!) sets the duo against a foggy forest floor, intimidatingly tall straight trees and sponged leaves, with branches poking out of the picture frame. The perspective suggests just how tall the trees look to a small, apprehensive bear about to climb one. In the last image, the bear and bird, safely back in the nest, are set off against a circle of sun with the words "I did," providing closure. While this book praises kindness and shows the rewards of brave persistence, the text is too schematic. Given the slow pacing and only the merest suggestion of characterizations, the book, however well intentioned, doesn't quite make it, even if the bear does. Ages 2-5. (Aug.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0802787045
• ISBN 13: 9780802787040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Mallat Kathy