At long last, Smile appears on Bear’s face.
As they fill the forest with song, something stirs deep within Bear. They share the comfortable silence of confidants-until Bird begins to sing, softly at first, then louder as Bear hums in harmony. Bear shares his sorrow, and Bird sits alongside him. As hope fades, Bird swoops in and asks what’s wrong. Bear slurps a pawful of honey as a last resort still, Smile doesn’t return. Rabbit notices something is amiss and suggests Bear seek Smile in his favorite places Bear searches everywhere, to no avail. Amid Bear’s gloomy landscape, a few objects retain their true colors, but the rest of the world is subsumed by a deep blue malaise. One morning-without warning, without reason-Bear finds himself alone. All is clearly well-but, as the world has a habit of reminding us, great difficulties sometimes arrive abruptly. Suffused with a solar glow, vibrant illustrations undergirded by the inimitable texture of Arches paper initially exude the most wonderful warmth. They do everything together: wake, munch, roam floral fields and wooded wilderness, plunge into waterfalls, and slurp golden gobs of honey. Lauren writes and paints in a big, pink Victorian House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband, her son (when he has not run off with the circus), her daughter (when she is home for the holidays), and three cats.A tenderhearted, life-affirming exploration of the depressive cycle through simple language and a rich visual vocabulary.īear and Smile seem inseparable. Her picture book When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky, which Lauren both wrote and illustrated, won the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for writing in Children’s Literature and was a Booklist's Top Ten Art Books as well as an ALA Notable Book. Ellen Tarlow is the author of Looking for Smile (4.18 avg rating, 293 ratings, 91 reviews), Becoming Blue (3.94 avg rating, 34 ratings, 7 reviews), Pinwh. Looking for Smile by Ellen Tarlow(Goodreads Author), Lauren Stringer(Illustrations) 4.18 Rating details 262 ratings 69 reviews Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Lauren has illustrated books written by beloved authors including Cynthia Rylant, Mem Fox and Lisa Westberg Peters. In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Her first picture book, Mud, written by Mary Lyn Ray, won a Minnesota Book Award, IRA Children’s Choice Award, Crayola Kids Best Book of the Year Award and was declared a "Flying Starts" by Publisher's Weekly. Lauren Stringer, represented by Victoria Wells Arms, is the illustrator, most recently, of Looking for Smile, by Ellen Tarlow, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, as well as The Shape of the World (a picture book about Frank Lloyd Wright, written by K L Going).
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