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The Bear and the Moon

h1 November 30th, 2020 by jules



 

Today, I’m featuring one of my favorite picture books of 2020 — Matthew Burgess’s The Bear and the Moon (Chronicle, September 2020), illustrated by Cátia Chien.

My Horn Book review of the book is here, if you’d like to read more about it.

And here today at 7-Imp, I’ve got some of the book’s beautiful spreads. Cátia also visits to share some early sketches and partial storyboards. I thank her for sharing.

Enjoy!



 

Preliminary Images:


 


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Some Final Spreads:


 


“First, he tried to catch the string between his teeth …”
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“And when dinnertime arrived, he tied the silver string to a stone. …”
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“… and when evening became night, it glowed softly in the moonlight.”
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“Good bear. Kind bear. Don’t worry, bear.”
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THE BEAR AND THE MOON. Text copyright © 2020 by Matthew Burgess. Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Cátia Chien. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco. All other images reproduced by permission of Cátia Chien.





One comment to “The Bear and the Moon”

  1. Hello, little bear! Hello, beautiful moon!

         by Little Willow November 30th, 2020 at 1:38 pm

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