34 p., Frances Foster/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008.
Sometimes imagination can provide a way to calm yourself at a stressful time. As this wordless story begins, a girl looks angry at dinner and goes to bed. The images suggest that her mother is angry with her. In the girl's dreams, her teddy bear (who becomes as big as a bear) takes her to a forest where they dance with foxes, the bear catches fish, and they enjoy a campfire before going to sleep. The girl wakes up at home with her now normal-sized teddy bear beside her. She happily gets a hug from her mother. She has used her imagination, in the form of a dream, to resolve her anger and make her relationship with her mother available to her again. The linocut illustrations have an almost shadowy quality that adds to the impression of witnessing a dream. Children can take from this story a sense of the calming power of imagination.
Ages: 3-6
Cultural Context: Asian
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