The Girl Who Owned a Bear TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text She turned the next leaf, and saw a big picture of a clown, dressed in green and red and yellow, and having a very white face with three-cornered spots of red on each cheek and over the eyes. While she looked at this the book trembled in her hands, the leaf crackled and creaked and suddenly the clown jumped out of it and stood upon the floor beside her, becoming instantly as big as any ordinary clown.<br><br>After stretching his arms and legs and yawning in a rather impolite manner, he gave a silly chuckle and said:<br><br>"This is better! You don't know how cramped one gets, standing so long upon a page of flat paper."<br><br>Perhaps you can imagine how startled Jane Gladys was, and how she stared at the clown who had just leaped out of the book.<br><br>"You didn't expect anything of this sort, did you?" he asked, leering at her in clown fashion. Then he turned around to take a look at the room and Jane Gladys laughed in spite of her astonishment.<br> COMMENTS: Visual Text Characters in a book come to life; and one threatens to eat the book's owner. And...that's about all there is to this story. Charming, but at best would make only a song, not even a ten-minute musical. CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheGirlWhoOwnedaBear.pdf
