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  • Once I Was a Bear

Once I Was a Bear

Publication Date
September 20, 2020
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  K − 1st
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Once I Was a Bear
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Description

A beautiful, beguiling tale about adapting to change and finding your place. Especially comforting during this time of social distancing and uncertainty about the future.

"Imaginative and poetically resonant." -- Kirkus Reviews

Considers nature's way of connecting us to ourselves and to others...poetically expresses feelings of dislocation, vulnerability, and strength. -- Quill & Quire, starred review

Oh, to be a bear in the forest! To rest and play, day after day, always feeling safe and at home. But when change fills the air, and it's time to journey into a different kind of wilderness, will it ever feel the same?

This sensitively imagined story illuminates the difficult transitions we all must face as we learn how to be at home in the world.

Publication date
September 20, 2020
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781338356335
Publisher
Scholastic Press
BISAC categories
JUV002030 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears
JUV039090 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
JUV039270 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Strangers
Library of Congress categories
Bears
Picture books
Imagination
Imagination in children
Maturation (Psychology)
Growth
Irene Luxbacher
Irene Luxbacher was nominated for the Governor General's Award for her illustrations in Andrew Larsen's The Imaginary Garden and its sequel The Not-So-Faraway Adventure. She has illustrated several other picture books, and her own Deep Underwater, Mattoo, Let's Play!, and Mr. Frank, as well as eight acclaimed children's art activity books. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with her husband and young son. You can learn more about her work at ireneluxbacher.com.
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