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published
August 1997
by Marshall Cavendish
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Hardcover
isbn
0761450041
(isbn13: 9780761450047)
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
Anyone With an Off-Beat Sense of Humor / Polar Bear Lovers
Those readers with a fondness for sentimental reassurance tales, in which fuzzy, anthropomorphized animals embody parental and/or filial devotion, are advised to keep looking. This is a Pinkwater book, and although by no means realistic - Larry is a polar bear who becomes a lifeguard in Bayonne, New Jersey, after all - its hero is definitely not meant to be "human." The hilarious exchange between Larry, his brother Roy, and his mother at the beginning of the book, is the perfect exampl...more
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Read in October, 2008
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I’ve worked my way through the five Bad Bears Irving and Muktuk books by these authors and love them. Larry appears in that series and was not one of my favorite characters there but in this book I found him extremely endearing. This book is silly and sweet and while not side splitting, funny at times. This did seem geared to young children (although I enjoyed it!) and the Bad Bears books have references that are obviously specifically to entertain adults. Jill Pinkwater’s illustrations are ...more
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