The limited language and solid acrylic paintings work together beautifully to convey emotion. OHora’s paintings are boldly colored and layered: a yellow stuffed bunny wears a teal jacket the purple-and-black–clad little girl strides in red Converse high-top sneakers over a pea-green lawn. The team that brought readers the adorable Wolfie the Bunny (2014) continues their success here. “HORRIBLE BEAR!”-and so begins the refrain of her angry tantrum. As the girl reaches for her kite, the bear rolls over, crushing it: “crunch!” The girl is shocked into a fit of righteous anger, blaming the bear for breaking her toy. Readers are cued into the nonscary absurdity as they observe the orange-furred bear napping in a Froggy Hollow Summer Camp T-shirt stretched across his huge belly, a tiny teddy bear tucked in his arm. A freckle-faced white child with a mass of red curls piled three times the height of her head is flying her kite near a snowcapped mountaintop when-“snap!”-the string breaks, and the toy is blown into a sleeping bear’s cave, coming to rest on his belly.
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