We're going on a bear hunt

Format:

Book

Title:

We're going on a bear hunt

Author:

Rosen, Michael, 1946-

ISBN:

9780689815812

Edition:

First Little Simon board book edition.

Publication:

New York : Little Simon, 1997.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 13 x 15 cm

Series title(s):

Classic board book.

General Note:

Cover title.

On board pages.

Summary:

A typically wonderful Oxenbury family sets out with gusto on a bear hunt, and the old story comes to life. Paintings are simply marvelous ... Rosen's retelling is spare, with a driving rhythm, and some new sounds add sparkle to the traditional tale. A predictable story in which brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

Subject(s):

Bears -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Toy and movable books

Toy and movable books.

Added Author:

Oxenbury, Helen

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Mount Angel Public Library	BB E ROSEN	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Independence Public Library	J BOARD - ROSEN	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

Beloved for more than 30 years, this award-winning classic from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury celebrates the joys of an afternoon outdoors with family.

We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one.

Will you come too? Join a father and his four young children as they cross a field of tall, wavy grass, wade through a deep, cold river, struggle through swampy mud, find their way through a big, dark forest, fight through a whirling snowstorm, and enter finally enter a narrow, gloomy cave. What will they find there? You'll have to read on to find out!

For more than thirty years readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favorite. Now fans of this timeless story from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury can treasure and share this Classic Board Book edition that has an updated, colorized cover.

Author Notes

Michael Rosen started writing as a teenager, when his mother needed some poems for Radio programs she was making. While at college, he wrote a play which was staged at the Royal Court theatre in London. Rosen's first book was published in 1974, and he is one of Britain's leading children's poets.

Michael Rosen launched the National Year of Literacy project, which encouraged children to help produce an Anthology to be used during the Literacy Hour in primary schools. Children ages 4-11 were invited to submit poems and illustrations featuring their favorite tree. Rosen also led the final judging sessions to decide which submissions would be included.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

This is a faithful adaptation into board-book form of the modern classic. It's all there, just smaller; and the only loss is of the sweeping effect of Oxenbury's evocative landscapes. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.