Old Bear's Surprise Painting - Hardcover

Hissey, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399237097 ISBN 13: 9780399237096

Publisher: Philomel, 2001

Synopsis

Old Bear and all the nursery animals are spending a fun day painting bright pictures filled with spots, wavy lines, stripes, and more in this charming picture book featuring the author's irresistible characters.

About this title

From Booklist:

Ages 3-6. Books about Old Bear have been delighting children since 1986, and this one will enchant them, too. Old Bear has painted a picture that fits nicely into its frame. There's another, larger frame available, and each of the other stuffed animals wants to paint a picture to fit it. Old Bear suggests the animals work together, but they decline. The rabbit paints wavy stripes; the giraffe dribbles dots; Duck accidentally gets puddles on his painting. No one is very happy, but Old Bear has an idea: slices from each picture combine to make a handsome painting of a ship sailing on a rolling sea. The story is slight, but the ending makes for a nice twist. As with previous books, this is a pleasure to look at. Hissey's stuffed-animal characters, cavorting with childlike earnestness against expanses of white, are a nice mix of photographic clarity and huggability. Their situation and need, in the end, for a father figure to straighten things out will seem familiar to the intended audience. Ilene Cooper
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From School Library Journal:

reS-Gr 1-Old Bear and his friends are back to introduce colors, patterns, and teamwork. Inspired by their old friend's painting of Little Bear, all of the stuffed animals insist on creating a unique pattern in paints, but their creative endeavors don't turn out as they had hoped. Waves, stripes, blobs, and dots decorate both canvases and characters. Sympathetic to the artistic disappointment of his pals, Old Bear surprises the assembly by using pieces of all their works to create a merry collage sailboat. The group effort offers opportunity to review which critter contributed which colors and shapes. Hissey combines endearing creatures with constructive learning in this short story.

Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA

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About this edition

• Publisher: Philomel
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0399237097
• ISBN 13: 9780399237096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Hissey Jane