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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Great Bear, The
Author: GLEESON LIBBY
Illustrator: GREDER ARMIN (ILL)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2010
Imprint: WALKER BOOKS AUST.(KIDS’)
Price: $18.00
Publishing status: Active
A heartfelt story of a cruelly treated dancing bear who finds the courage to stand up for herself. The circus bear spends her days in a cage and her nights performing for a crowd. The crowd taunts her as she dances – poking her with sticks or throwing stones. Can she ever break free? From the award-winning team of Libby Gleeson and Armin Greder comes a story with a powerful visual narrative.
Short-listed for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, Picture Book of the Year 2000.
Winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Awards, Fiction for Infants Category 2000.
‘This book owes its extraordinary power to the splendid images which contain many sophisticated allusions to an impressive pictorial tradition extending from Honore Daumier
to the German expressionists, whilst at the same time offering a coherent perspective full of engaging and seductive appeal.’ Bologna judges’ report.
Part of the Walker Classics series – new editions of classic Australian and New Zealand picture
books. Featuring a fresh new design and additional notes from the author and illustrators, as well as comments from children’s book authorities.
ISBN: 9781921529696