Comme la plupart des grands succès, nous l’avons d’abord emprunté à maintes reprises à la bibliothèque – au point de connaître son emplacement exact et de l’emprunter à nouveau à peine rapporté. Mais voir la tête tour à tour hébétée, tour à tour dépitée d’ours blanc est à mourir de rire.Ĭe véritable carton de l’édition jeunesse, ce petit miracle de simplicité qui fait se tordre de rire les enfants est l’oeuvre de deux auteurs japonais Tatsuya Kameyama et Atsuko Nakagawa apparaissant sous le pseudonyme Tupera Tupera. Tourner les pages pour découvrir des effets de découpage, peut-être aussi. Qu’est-ce qui fait son succès ? Voir des animaux affublés de culottes ridicules, certainement.

Ne riez pas – ou plutôt si – ce livre est un best-seller, une tuerie, un véritable phénomène chez les moins de 5 ans. I've renewed the book from the library 4x now, so you could totally say that this is HIGHLY recommended by Joe. He yells out the answer to each pair of underwear gleefully, and loves helping me sing the ditty at the end. Joe and I have now read this book often enough that I could recite it in my sleep. The book ends with a little ditty about Polar Bear's love for his underwear.

but whose is it? The cut-out on the right side of the page reveals only the underwear it's not until you turn the page that the animal wearing the underwear is revealed! They determine quickly that it isn't Polar Bear's. Every other two-page spread features Polar Bear and Mouse looking at a pair of underwear. The genius of the book is in the cut-outs. but they don't find Polar Bear's until the very end (of course). Along the way, they find many pairs of underwear. His friend Mouse suggests that they look for it together. The premise: Polar Bear has lost his underwear. Thus ends this lovely, simple, and pretty hilarious picture book. Polar Bear's underwear, so clean and so bright.

Polar Bear's Underwear by Tupera Tupera