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Banks, Kate

The Bear in the Book

32 pp. | Farrar/Foster | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-30591-8 $16.99
(4) PS Illustrated by Georg Hallensleben. A boy asks his mom to read his favorite bedtime book, in which a bear prepares for hibernation; as she reads, the boy prepares for (and submits to) sleep. The parallel-experience concept is solid, but sometimes the story's "meta" visual element ("The bear...crossed the page") is just plain confusing. Regardless, Hallensleben's paintings of wintry scenes are consistently sumptuous.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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