The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Steiner, Jörg

The Bear Who Wanted to Be a Bear

32 pp. | Heryin | July, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-9762-0560-9 $16.95
Reissue (1977, Atheneum)

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jörg Müller. A bear wakes from hibernation to find a factory built over his den. Nobody believes he's a bear and, unhappily, he becomes a factory worker, but he's so sleepy in the fall that he gets fired. The suitably cold, gloomy, and joyless illustrations are amusing in their depiction of corporate life. The book is a strange but successful mixture of fantasy and satire.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: August, 1977