Bear Outside-Autographed Body This sensitive and life-affirming story

This sensitive and life-affirming story will lead young readers to ask their own questions about life

The spare but powerful text in this joyful picture book explores why we need each other--our friends

and they're not sure if they're both going to make it safely back to their friends

She has the power to make the most magical Christmasy things happen

the town gossip

Bear Outside-Autographed Body This sensitive and life-affirming storyLots of people have inner strength, but one girl wears hers as a bear outside. Some folks have a lion inside, Or a tiger. Not me. I wear my bear on the outside. In this imaginative picture book by Jane Yolen, acclaimed author of many distinguished children's books including Owl Moon and How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, a girl explores the many ways she expresses herself by imagining that she wears a bear as her personal protective shell. They go