Bears / story by Ruth Krauss ; pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krauss, Ruth.

Contributor:

Sendak, Maurice, illustrator.

Starace, Tom.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bears--Pictorial works--Juvenile fiction.

Bears.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Sendak, Maurice (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [HarperCollins Publishers], [2005.]

Summary:

A new interpretation of Ruth Krauss' 1948 story "Bears" in which Maurice Sendak's illustrations add a complex subplot. A boy, portrayed as Max in his wolf suit from "Where the wild things are", chases after his pet dog to retrieve his teddy bear, and encounters all sorts of bears along the way. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Notes:

"Michael di Capua Books."

"Hand lettering by Tom Starace."

"Pictures copyright 2005 by Maurice Sendak."--Colophon.

"Ruth Krauss' text for 'Bears,' with pictures by Phyllis Rowand, was first published in 1948 by Harper & Brothers."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy inscribed to Atha by Maurice Sendak Oct. 2005.

Tehon Collection copy has card with message written in ms. laid in.

ISBN:

0060757167

9780060757168

OCLC:

762166798