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The First Bear in Africa.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)

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| June 01, 2001 | Eames, Alicia | COPYRIGHT 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ICHIKAWA, Satomi. The First Bear in Africa. illus. by author, unpaged. glossary. CIP. Philomel. 2001. RTE $14.99. ISBN 0-399-23485-3. LC 99-040061.

PreS-Gr 1--Meto lives with his family and animals "in a very small village in the middle of the African savanna." One day, tourists appear in their motorcar and, as the boy puts it, "watch us all the time from behind their photographic machines." Among the group is a little girl holding a toy bear, and Meto notices that he has "never seen this kind of animal before." Shortly after the group departs, he spies the bear on the ground and takes off on foot to return it. Along the way, each animal Meto passes has ...

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