A Cub Explores - Hardcover

Love, Pamela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892725931 ISBN 13: 9780892725939

Publisher: Down East Books, 2004

Synopsis

A Cub Explores tells the story of a day in the life of a black bear cub and his mother, including the discovery of a painted turtle, an encounter with a huge bull moose, a frightening confrontation with a bobcat, and a sighting of beavers at work. Illustrated throughout with realistic and beautifully rendered colored pencil drawings.

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About the Author

After growing up in New Jersey, Pamela Love graduated from BucknellUniversity in Pennsylvania.  She worked as a teacher and in marketingbefore turning to writing.  She's the author of several other picturebooks: A Loon Alone, A Cub Explores, A Moose's Morning, and Lighthouse Seeds, all published by Down East Books, and Brigid and the Butter, published by Pauline Books and Media.  She has also written an easy reader, Two Feet Up, Two Feet Down, published by Scholastic Children's Books. Her poems, stories, and plays have appeared in such children's magazines as Highlights for Children, Cricket, and Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People.  One of her stories appears in the anthology Family Matters: Thirteen Short Stories, which is also published by Pauline Books and Media.  She lives with her family in Maryland.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2 - This brief picture book follows a mother black bear and her baby through a summer afternoon as the cub learns about friends, foes, and food. They play in a cool brook, forage for food, meet a variety of other animals, and settle down for the night. The color-pencil illustrations are realistic, though the cub's size is a bit inconsistent. Unfortunately, the text is sometimes choppy, and there is little sense of excitement or humor in the writing. For simple factual stories about bear cubs, try a photo-essay such as Aubrey Lang's The Adventures of Baby Bear (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2001) or an easy reader like Joyce Milton's Bears Are Curious (Random, 1998) instead. - Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL
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About this edition

• Publisher: Down East Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0892725931
• ISBN 13: 9780892725939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32