The Bear in the Book

Kate Banks

Macmillan, Oct 16, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 40 pages

It's time for bed, and a little boy chooses his favorite book for his mother to read to him. The bear in the book is preparing for his own deep slumber, hibernating through the winter while humans and other animals explore the snowy landscape around him. Just when the bear wakes up to greet the spring, the boy drifts off to sleep. Kate Banks' soft and rhythmic text is brought to life by Georg Hallensleben's strong, expressive paintings in this bedtime read that will carry young readers through the seasons.

About the author

Kate Banks has written many books for children, among them Max’s Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading. “I especially liked picture books,” she says, “and the way in which words and illustrations could create a whole new world in which sometimes real and other times magical and unexpected things could happen.” Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years but now lives in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bear in the Book
• Author: Kate Banks
• Illustrated by: Georg Hallensleben
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2012
• ISBN: 0374305919, 9780374305918
• Length: 40 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Bears; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Fiction / Bedtime & Dreams; Juvenile Fiction / Books & Libraries; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / New Experience