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5th out of 37 books
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87 voters
Wonder Bear
by
Tao Nyeu
Two kids plant mysterious seeds (all that?s pictured on the envelope is a blue top hat), and up grows a remarkable flowering vine, out of which emerges an even more remarkable big white bear. On his head is the top hat?a hat that allows him to work all kinds of magic that day. He pulls monkey after monkey from the hat, blows bubbles in amazing shapes, and transforms flower...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
September 18th 2008
by Dial
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Feb 25, 2010
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As far as I know there are no hard and fast rules that govern an illustrator’s debut picture book. No guidelines on what to do or what to avoid are written down for easy reference. If an illustrator were to ask me, however, I would probably advise against going wordless your first time out. The general buying public is comfortable with certain wordless books, all right. Anno's Journey and The Red Book and The Snowman, for example. But these are award winners or literary classics. By and large...more
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This wordless fantasy book will carry children away into a dream-like world filled with luscious foliage and flowers, silly monkeys, huge bubbles and flying dolphins. From the very first pages where the two children are planting watermelon seeds and hat seeds, children will know that something special and even strange is about to happen. The story has no real foundation, drifting along from one lovely notion to the next, lingering and then moving on again.
Unlike some dreamlike story books, ther...more
Unlike some dreamlike story books, ther...more
Such tender joy in this wordless picture book. The silk screen art is expertly done with an added dimension of texture to the pleasing combination of secondary colors. Although it seems plot-less, there is a full story and whimsical flights of fancy that is deeply satisfying and appealing to the core of one's heart.
This is a fun and imaginative wordless book. I found myself going through it again and again and creating a new story each time. I would love to have one of the pages framed and on my wall. Ages Birth+
Wonder Bear by Tao Nyeu is a picture book. The age group this book is intended for is nursery. The book is about a bear that came from a plant grown by two children. The bear brought many great things to the children from his hat.
This book had no words and had many styles of shapes throughout the illustrations. There were realistic, geometric, and abstract shapes throughout the book. The colors were vibrant and the images showed action, emotions, and possibilities. The children in the book enjoy...more
I found this wordless picture book to be strange and confusing. It just wasn't my cup of tea, but I'm sure lots of other people will love it.
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The 2nd psychedelic picture book that I've personally gotten to see this year, but this one is wordless. It was done as a School of Visual Arts thesis by an MFA student, and I thought of Dr. Seuss twice within the first few pages. The trees vaguely made me think of THE LORAX's truffula trees, and then when the wonder bear pulls monkeys out of his hat, it's like little cat A and little cat B... from THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK. The story is very dream-like (sea creatures flying in the air, slee...more
A fabulously imaginative book with no words, ideal for bedtime. A boy and girl plant a garden and go to sleep beside it. A fabulous large swirly plant emerges and in the flower is the Wonder Bear, a large white bear who comes down to the kids with a magic hat from which monkeys spring! The monkeys do various tricks and the bear blows lion bubbles, and the monkeys get in some of the bubbles, and with the boy and girl and a blanket, he catches them as they pop. He also makes sea creatures that swi...more
Iiiii'm not sure what to think about Wonder Bear. Is it all a crazy dream? Is it a drug-induced hallucination? (After all, that boy did plant "hat seeds", so clearly he was a little space cadet to begin with).
Let's begin at the beginning of this wordless picture book: two children go up a hill to work in their garden. According to the sign staked at the end of the girl's two long rows, she plants watermelon seeds. According to the sign staked beside the boy's little square plot, he is trying to...more
Let's begin at the beginning of this wordless picture book: two children go up a hill to work in their garden. According to the sign staked at the end of the girl's two long rows, she plants watermelon seeds. According to the sign staked beside the boy's little square plot, he is trying to...more
I'm not usually sucked in by the wordless beautiful magical dream journey type of picture book. I'm one of the few people I know who wasn't entranced by The House in the Night. Imagine a Night leaves me worse than cold. And I seem to remember some kind of flying magic bed book that made me actually groan.
But man, I love Wonder Bear. I love the wordless narrative - so simple that even a five-year-old can follow and predict, yet so subtle that his older brother will find repetitions and clues to t...more
But man, I love Wonder Bear. I love the wordless narrative - so simple that even a five-year-old can follow and predict, yet so subtle that his older brother will find repetitions and clues to t...more
A very interesting wordless story following the imaginative adventures of Wonder Bear and a boy and girl. Some of the scenes are absolutely beautiful and charming (I loved the "sea" creatures soaring through the night sky) but some were just a bit too... odd for my taste. (The monkeys were a bit too much like evil sock monkeys for my taste!) Still this is a creative story and I think one that some people will absolutely love.
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what a wonderfully imaginative and illustrated book. i was caught completely off-guard with this wonderfully imaginative and beautifully illustrated book. our imaginations are something that we feed and i love that the children in this book don't simply drift off to sleep and imagine this bear - they plan and care for the garden that grows him and then, not belonging to them, he flies off into the air in his magical hat. lovely.
I have an odd standard for children's book illustrations. I ask myself, if I had children, would I want these illustrations painted on their walls? Or I just ask myself, would I like a mural from this illustrator on my own walls, if they're that good.
I really like children's books with no text. This one is very sweet. Magical and fun. I'd prefer a visit from Wonder Bear as opposed to the cat in the hat.
I really like children's books with no text. This one is very sweet. Magical and fun. I'd prefer a visit from Wonder Bear as opposed to the cat in the hat.
Wonder Bear by Tao Nyeu is a beautiful wordless picture book illustrated only in Orange, white, blue and green. This is such a gorgeous story of children dreaming and having an adventure with a magic hat and a polar bear. Will make an excellent addition to any child's picture book collection. Perfect for hesitant readers to start the conversations needed to engage their interest.
This is so awesome for a book with no words! A boy and a girl plant some seeds and bear grows out of the seeds and takes them on a magical journey. What's cool about a wordless book is the story can be different each time it's read. I love the illustrations and the colors. The whole thing seems like a big 60s acid trip but don't tell that to the little ones! :P
This book is sort of like the visual representation of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," right down to the tangerine trees and marmalade skies (actually, the skies look more like grape jelly than marmalade, but... whatever, close enough). Pretty trippy stuff. Man, I've read some weeeiiiiird picture books the last few days.
Wow.
Let me say I was a bit taken back to realize this was a wordless book, but the illustrations were beautiful. I wish I could have some of them as posters in my room. Each page felt like a piece of art, lovely!
Let me say I was a bit taken back to realize this was a wordless book, but the illustrations were beautiful. I wish I could have some of them as posters in my room. Each page felt like a piece of art, lovely!
I think Tao Nyeu may rapidly be becoming my favorite children's book author/illustrator of all time. Looking through the book, my response was to gasp in wonder on more than one occasion. Aptly titled, beautiful.
Wordless picture book-- a trippy, less destructive cat-in-the-hat story of a white gummy bear and his magic hat that works magic that the Grateful Dead would rejoice in. Not my bag, but exactly the sort of book that wins Caldecott.
I've loved this one since I first saw it in a toy store/ bookstore a few years ago. It was really fun "reading" it with my 5 yr old since it's wordless and he got to describe what he saw to me.
This book is awesome. Utterly awesome. The drawings are incredible. Every time I see this on the shelf at the library, I have to pull it out & read it, and it always cheers me up.
Such beautiful drawings, such high quality paper, such dream-like imagination! What an awesome wordless story. Great for kids who don't need everything they see to make sense.
This is a weird little trippy book about a magic gummy bear? Who takes kids flying around a sky filled with sea creatures? I'm a little confused.
Very trippy and terrifying! I still don't think I'd get in some random bears hat. But honestly, if I were on acid, who knows what I'd do?
A really gorgeous book, although the adults are unfortunately more interested than the kids because of the amazing illustrations.
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Dream-like pictures that made me hear Beatles while I was looking at it. Many pictures would be great prints in my house!
Gorgeous, and I mean GORGEOUS, illustrations in this lovely wordless fantasy about generosity and, well, wonder.
one of the most beautiful books i've ever seen and the first wordless book that i've LOVED.
The pictures are beautiful, but this is one of the weirdest books I have "read" in a long time.
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