Welcome back to EBYR All Over, a Friday roundup of all the EBYR-related news, reviews, interviews, and other interesting online content we can gather in a given week.
New Releases
I Am a Bear
By Jean-François Dumont
Life isn’t easy for a bear. Not when he has to sleep on the sidewalk among cardboard boxes and old clothes. Not when he lives in a city full of people who are repulsed by him. Not when he’s hungry and homeless. But one day a young girl smiles at the bear, and he realizes that maybe there is something that could make life a bit easier — a friend.
News from Eerdmans & Elsewhere
- Giveaway alert: Don’t forget that we’re giving away 10 copies of Fur, Fins, and Feathers by Cassandre Maxwell through TeachingBooks.net! Click here to find out how to enter.
- The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch was reviewed by Betsy Bird on her Fuse #8 Production blog this Thursday. Bird raved about the author-illustrator team’s mature but still inviting treatment of difficult subject matter. The book presents an “inspiring, if too little known, story of a man who did something absolutely astounding.” She concludes that this is a “story that every schoolchild should know. If there’s any justice in the universe, after reading this book they will. Reconstruction done right. Nonfiction done well.”
- Speaking of John Roy Lynch, it’s been a busy week for him. He traveled back to Washington D.C. this week for the National Book Festival, and yesterday was his birthday! Read a biographical sketch of his life from The Mississippi Library Commission.
Brother Giovanni’s Little Reward and Brother Hugo and the Bear both earned five star reviews on the Stuart’s Study blog.- Speaking of bears, work began this week in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the statue honoring Voytek (or Wojtek — Polish spelling is so tricky), the bear hero of Soldier Bear who worked and fought with the Free Polish Army in World War II. According to the Edinburgh News, “[t]he memorial is set to be unveiled on November 7 in an opening ceremony featuring two of the Polish war veterans who found Wojtek as a cub.” Can anyone say field trip?
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