Wonder Bear (2008)

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Author

Tao Nyeu

Genre

Fantasy

Rating

3.97 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

0803733283 (ISBN13: 9780803733282)

Language

English

Publisher

Dial

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About book Wonder Bear (2008)

what a wonderfully imaginative and illustrated book. i was caught completely off-guard with this wonderfully imaginative and beautifully illustrated book. our imaginations are something that we feed and i love that the children in this book don't simply drift off to sleep and imagine this bear - they plan and care for the garden that grows him and then, not belonging to them, he flies off into the air in his magical hat. lovely. The 2nd psychedelic picture book that I've personally gotten to see this year, but this one is wordless. It was done as a School of Visual Arts thesis by an MFA student, and I thought of Dr. Seuss twice within the first few pages. The trees vaguely made me think of THE LORAX's truffula trees, and then when the wonder bear pulls monkeys out of his hat, it's like little cat A and little cat B... from THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK. The story is very dream-like (sea creatures flying in the air, sleeping in a big bed outside next to the garden, etc.). I'll be looking out for this author/illustrator's next project.