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Mina longs for a teddy bear until the doctor tells her a story that makes her feel better even without one.
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《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
This fairly creepy, drearily illustrated story within a story involves a girl who wants a teddy bear so much that she convinces herself she has a bear in her family tree. She gets this idea from her doctor, whose own story about his ursine grandfather is printed in a spindly script type that's difficult to read. From HORN BOOK Fall 1999, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A book-within-a-book device marks Jrg's import from Switzerland, which sends readers into a strange, enchanted fantasy world where a grown bear marries a young woman. Mina desperately wants a teddy bear; she falls ill when she doesn't receive the toy. Dr. Rooney is called in on the case, and offers solace in the form of a story he tells; he suggests that he is the descendant of a bear. The story moves from Mina's bedside to Dr. Rooney's tale, set in a forested land of bears, one of whom happens to be his own grandfather. Here the glossy pages fade to a matte brown, the script turns into an old-fashioned italic, and the book must be turned on its side to be read. After the story, Mina receives a toy mama bear, papa bear, and baby bear for her next birthday, but she no longer needs them: Mina imagines herself as a bear, part of one happy bear family, thanks to the doctor. This small flight of fancy is movingly conveyed in the illustrations, which show all of Mina's family, formerly humans, as bears. Mysterious, but lovely. (Picture book. 5-8)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 6^-9. Children who enjoy visual surprises will be pleased by this surreal tale within a tale. When young Mina's yen for a teddy bear makes her ill, the doctor cures her with the story of how his grandparents, one of whom happened to be a bear, met and married. Reichstein softens edges and colors to give his illustrations a cozy feel and puts his characters through transformations: Mina opens with dark hair, suddenly becomes a redhead, and then for her birthday party changes into a bear, along with the doctor and everyone in her family. The book designer gets into the spirit of things, too, changing the typeface for the doctor's story into ornate script and rotating the page orientation 90 degrees. Since younger readers may struggle to decipher the portions written in script, this lends itself best to shared reading, but its light, playful tone makes Anthony Browne's Changes (1990) seem portentous. --John Peters