Jen Corace

In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.

Lots 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 everywhere...