Bear Hugs

Hague, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 0805005129 ISBN 13: 9780805005127

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1989

Synopsis

A collection of poems about teddy bears, providing comfort at bedtime or engaged in a game of hide-and-seek.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-- These brief poems celebrate the loving bonding of child and bear in small moments of contact, and there are no parents around to spoil it. While the toys and nursery furniture painted here recall an idealized childhood, the children themselves are your rumpled, garden-variety preschoolers. A stenciled border with hearts in each corner reinforces the nostalgic theme and holds everything together. Jane Yolen's The Three Bears Rhyme Book (HBJ, 1987), to which this is a natural companion, has more, more varied, and longer poems. However, never mind that kids are more likely to play with a teenaged mutant-something than a teddy these days or that libraries and stores are overflowing with these lovable totems of childhood. This is an attractively drawn, can't-miss addition to the bears' canon. --Anna Biagioni Hart, Sherwood Regional Library, Alexandria, VA
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This is an attractive and perky book with appeal limited to fans of the Hagues and teddy bear lovers old and young. Although the verse found in each of nine poems is sometimes uninspired and often saccharine, some readers may warm to this low-key evocation of the everyday lives of young children. And the mix of cute, sleepy toddlers paired with bears of all sizes, shapes and degrees of cuddliness has definite commercial merit. All ages.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0805005129
• ISBN 13: 9780805005127
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Hague Michael