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An unusual sensory exploration that plants readers alongside Lewis, offering them a blueprint of sorts for listening closely for their own personal soundscapes.
Author and illustrator, one working with a spare palette of barely expressed emotions, and one creating nakedly realistic, beautiful scenes of boyhood, deliver a story of bonding that is so very much greater than the sum of its parts.
There are no mistakes in these pages, just an SEL lesson writ large, delivered with perfect comic timing. A must.
This book is straight up O.G. and brand new; children will scream, "Just right!" at story hours and envy Bear and his louche life among human objects.
Educators can build an entire lesson around zero, especially given the thoughtful resources and chatty time line provided in the back matter.
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