{"id":1422,"date":"2010-12-01T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T20:59:33","slug":"december-2010-item-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/01\/december-2010-item-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2010 Item of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moon Bear (Title page illustration)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ed Young, a children’s book author\/illustrator and winner of many prestigious awards including a\u00a0Caldecott Medal for Lon Po Po:\u00a0 a Red Riding-Hood Story from China<\/em>, two Caldecott Honor Awards, and two nominations for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, has added to his Papers held in the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Young was born in Tientsin, China and raised in Shanghai and Hong Kong, where he was interested in drawing and storytelling from an early age.\u00a0 He moved to the U.S. in 1951 to study architecture but quickly changed his focus to art.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Young has illustrated\u00a0over eighty books, many of which he also wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 19 beautiful collage illustrations for his 2010 book, Moon Bear<\/em>, written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Henry Holt, are new to the\u00a0NCLC and were deposited\u00a0following his recent appearance at the 19th Annual Connecticut Children’s Book Fair<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Moon Bear <\/em>is the story of one moon bear, or Asiatic black bear, as she goes through the annual cycle of hibernation, awakening, foraging, and procreation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the author’s note,\u00a0Ms. Guiberson describes\u00a0the tragic plight of thousands of Asiatic black bears who are imprisoned in tiny cages\u00a0on bear farms throughout Asia.\u00a0\u00a0For over 3,000 years bears were hunted in Asia for their gall bladders and bile, thought to cure disease.\u00a0 Laws enacted in the 1980’s took steps to ban bear hunting but wild bears are still caught and farmed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Moon Bear (pg. 6\/7 illustration)<\/p><\/div>\n

Several organizations are working to create sanctuaries where sick bears can be\u00a0treated and rehabilitated,\u00a0such as Animals Asia Moon Bear Rescue Center in China.\u00a0 For more information, go to\u00a0\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffhttp:\/\/www.animalsasia.org<\/a>.\u00a0 A portion of the proceeds of each book is donated to this worthwhile organization devoted to ending animal cruelty and restoring respect for animals throughout Asia.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Young says in his dedication:\u00a0 “To Integrity, ‘the Spiritual Bear,’ so that we may reclaim green humanity lost to unharnessed ‘wants’ disguised as our needs.”<\/p>\n

Terri J. Goldich, Curator, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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