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24 pp.
| Candlewick/Templar |
October, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-7132-7$12.99
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"When you're happy, having fun, / I feel happy, too. / When you giggle, play, and run, / I laugh along with you." A polar bear parent speaks to its child in Hallmarkian rhyme. Deserving better are the illustrations, which show parent and child cavorting together in crisp, snow-speckled wintertime scenes, some of which have the look of icy woodblocks.