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School Library Journal - 10/01/2011 PreS—Mama Bear must go away for awhile and she attempts to console her child with such sentiments as, "I will always come back," as well as, "And even when I'm not with you, Little Bear, I'll send you love and kisses every minute of every day." Little Bear creates a "Kiss Box," in which he places a hundred kisses for his mother. He then requests that she make one for him, and he's calmed knowing that their love will be conveyed through the boxes while they are apart. Very similar to Audrey Penn's The Kissing Hand (Child Welfare League of America, 1993), this book is intended to assure children that they are remembered and cared about even when separated from their loved ones. Cole's charming and cheery watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations of Mama Bear and Little Bear enjoying the day before she leaves do much to make this title appealing. The audience for this sweet, tender tale is very young children who may be reassured by the tangible reminder of love.—Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI - Copyright 2011 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Booklist - 12/15/2011 This Little Bear isn’t the same one made famous by Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak, nor is he Martin Waddell’s Little Bear, but he is certainly of the same ilk as those beloved characters. Similar in tone and theme to Minarik’s classic series, this is for slightly younger readers, and it is a bit simpler with a briefer text. The focus here is on Little Bear and Mama Bear and their upcoming separation (Mama Bear must go out for the afternoon). Softly colored pencil-and-watercolor illustrations portray bucolic, quotidian scenes: Mama Bear pushing Little Bear on a swing, the two fishing together, a picnic in a field. Throughout, Mama Bear reassures Little Bear: “‘I will think about you all the time,’ said his mama, ‘no matter where I am or what I do.’” Together they work out a solution for his separation anxiety: something to carry kisses in. The “Storyteller’s Note” at the end makes explicit what many parental readers will already have surmised—that the kiss box is as helpful for mamas as it is for the cubs they miss. - Copyright 2011 Booklist.

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