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Bear's Picture

by Daniel Pinkwater

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children (2008-04-21)

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Amazon Description

A bear wants to paint a picture, and so he does; however, two fine, proper gentlemen don’t think that it is a very fine picture at all. But just because they don’t see what the bear sees doesn’t make it a bad picture, right? Daniel Pinkwater turns art (and art critics) upside down in this classic tale, now beautifully reillustrated by D. B. Johnson.

One Potato Review

Taking it to The Man. The great Daniel Pinkwater tries his hand at something a little different, and neither he nor his Bear is apparently much in the mood to pander. This is simply a book about painting the world as you see it, and the naysayers here are two “fine, proper gentlemen,” nattering and speculating and, lastly, disappearing into Bear’s upside-down self-portrait, which also happens to incorporate streams, and hollow logs, and vivid fields of flowers they can’t appreciate, but too bad. “It is MY picture,” explains Bear, and that is finally the only explanation that matters. Nice work if you can get it.   

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