Bears
By Ruth Krauss; Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
(HarperCollins, Hardcover, 9780060279943, 24pp.)
Publication Date: June 2005
Categories: Animals - Bears, Humorous Stories
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With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe.
Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.
Ruth Krauss, a member of the experimental Writer’s Laboratory at the Bank Street School in New York City in the 1940s, imaginatively used humor and invented words to create some of the very first books for children that highlighted a child’s inner life. She collaborated with some of the greatest illustrators in children’s literature, including Maurice Sendak and her husband, Crockett Johnson.
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