The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Stead, Philip C.

Bear Has a Story to Tell

32 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-745-6 $16.99

(2) PS Illustrated by Erin E. Stead. Bear wants to share a story, but his friends are busy preparing for winter. Come spring, he's forgotten his story! With some prompting from the others, Bear begins: "It was almost winter and Bear was getting sleepy"--a reprise of the book's first line. This perfectly cyclical, quietly entrancing book features scenes of sleepy, soft-edged creatures floating on imagination-freeing white.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012