Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Old Mother Bear

Old Mother Bear( )
Author: Miles, Victoria
Illustrator: Bang, Molly
ISBN:978-0-8118-5033-9
Publication Date:Mar 2007
Publisher:Chronicle Books LLC
Imprint:SeaStar Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

Through the seasons and over years, Old Mother Bear's story unfolds. We watch her dig a winter den, give birth to three cubs, hunt for food, and defend her cubs against another bear. And we witness the cubs growing up, a bear growing old, and the imprint of her life upon the land. In luminous chalk paintings, three-time Caldecott Honor Book artist Molly Bang has captured all the warmth, beauty, and poetry of this extraordinary life. Includes substantial factual information on grizzly...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:48
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Bears
Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.88 x 11 x 0.5 Inches
Book Weight:1.034 Pounds
Author Biography
Miles, Victoria (Author)
Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated.

Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book

Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition.

030



Featured Books

Angels Fall
Roberts, Nora
Paperback: $16.99
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $20.00
Prequel
Maddow, Rachel
Hardback: $32.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.