The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin

Authors

Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lenore Carlisle Reilly, Mount Holyoke College
Shari Tishman, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Files

Description

In this classic children’s book (available at The Open Library), a bear wakes up from winter hibernation to find that his forest has been replaced by a factory. To make matters even worse, every human he on the assembly line and in the corporate offices, and every bear he meets at the zoo and the circus, insists that he's not even a bear, just a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat. As Gareth B. Matthews observed, the book’s “philosophical whimsy” raises a host of basic epistemological and metaphysical questions.

Publication Date

1987

Publisher

Sundance Publishers & D1smbu1ors. Inc.

Keywords

children's literature, philosophy for children, epistemology, metaphysics, identity, nature

Disciplines

Education | Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Gareth B.; Reilly, Lenore Carlisle; and Tishman, Shari, "The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin" (1987). Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature. 1.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_wiseowl/1