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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile literature |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. Bearskin. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1997 (OCoLC)605439596 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Pyle; Trina Schart Hyman |
| ISBN: | 0688098371 9780688098377 068809838X 9780688098384 |
| OCLC Number: | 35249439 |
| Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Series Title: | Books of wonder. |
| Responsibility: | by Howard Pyle ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman ; afterword by Peter Glassman. |
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""Bearskin, </i> the first story in Howard Pyle's book of literary fairy tales, "The Wonder Clock, </i> is an agreeable tale incorporating several familiar mythic and folkloric elements. As the result of a wise man's prediction that a miner's baby will marry the princess, her father the king orders the baby's death, but the child is set adrift in a basket by a compassionate huntsman. Found and nurtured by a she-bear, Bearskin grows to be immensely brave and strong. He rescues his princess from a dragon and manages, by guile, to marry her. Howard Pyle was one of the greatest and most famous of nineteenth-century American children's illustrators, but his illustrations for "Bearskin, </i> though striking, are few and rather stilted. Hyman's many lively paintings not only add a sense of the progression of the tale and provide remarkably clear characterization but also seem to marry Pyle's mannered and rather archaic literary style to a more contemporary context. Hyman has chosen to present her characters multi-ethnically--Bearskin himself is clearly of Asian origin, the princess has a black mother and a white father, and even the she-bear has a very human aspect. Although this could have seemed like p.c. overload, the world we are shown is a place of such harmony and unity that anyone would be happy to dwell in it."<br>"--Horn Book</i><p>."..rich and descriptive...full of humor and goodness rewarded.... A choice selection for reading aloud and storytelling."<br>"--School Library Journal</i><p>"Hyman proves her mastery ... infuses these memorable characters with just the right visual touches of humor and intelligence to meet the standards of Pyle's classic Americantale."<br>"Publishers Weekly</i> Read more...
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