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L'ours qui aimait les arbres

by (author) Nicholas Oldland

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Apr 2010
Category
General
Recommended Age
3 to 8
Recommended Grade
p to 3
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443101615
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $10.99
  • Board book

    ISBN
    9781443180962
    Publish Date
    Apr 2020
    List Price
    $12.99

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Il était une fois un ours très heureux et très affectueux. Il avait tellement d'amour à donner qu'il faisait un câlin à chaque être vivant qu'il croisait dans la forêt. Mais un jour, il rencontra un humain armé d'une hache. Soudain, il n'eut plus aucune envie d'être affectueux... À l'aide de personnages charmants, la fable contemporaine de Nicholas Oldland illustre le pouvoir extraordinaire d'un câlin.

 

A huge bear is wandering through the forest - but wait a minute! Who's that he's hugging? A beaver? And a moose? And a bird? And a tree?

Welcome to the world of Big Bear Hug, a contemporary fable about a bear who has an appetite for hugging everything in sight - even creatures that bears have been known to eat. One day, the benevolent bear meets up with a human. This human proceeds to do something the bear cannot understand: he raises his axe and begins to cut down a tree. Suddenly the bear doesn't feel like hugging anymore and must make a difficult decision on how to stop this destruction in his forest.

The environmental message of Big Bear Hug is both funny and powerful, while simple enough to engage very young children and show them the awesome power of a hug.

Original title: Big Bear Hug

About the author

 

 

 

Nicholas Oldland est le directeur artistique et l'un des propriétaires d'une entreprise de vêtements nommée Hatley. Ses motifs reconnus sont imprimés sur des pyjamas, des imperméables, des bottes de pluie et des chandails, tous signés Hatley. Aux Éditions Scholastic, il a écrit et illustré plusieurs albums dont L'ours qui aimait les arbres, L'orignal qui avait la frousse et Les amis qui ne pensaient qu'à gagner. Nicholas habite à Toronto.

 

Nicholas Oldland earned a degree in fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, and enjoyed success as a commercial artist and filmmaker before taking up the role of creative director at Hatley, a popular apparel company. Big Bear Hugis his first picture book.

 

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