Kleiner Eisbär

[cjsmith]

An adorable German children's book line is the stories of Lars, the Little Polar Bear. I am now working my way through "Kleiner Eisbär, wohin fährst du?" In this story the Little Polar Bear goes with his father to the edge of the sea. Dad catches a fish for dinner and the two make snow-hummocks to sleep behind to protect them from the wind. When Lars awakens he is on an iceberg surrounded by sea, and he has several interesting adventures as he finds a way home again.

My vocabulary is not quite up to this job. I can order food, deal with money, understand directions, and complain about the weather, but I have to look up words like "iceberg" or even "discovered". :)

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[(Anonymous)]

I think I read that one in French - one of the adventures involved visiting a research station and climbing in through the roof? And he had a rabbit-friend with him? Something like that... it was in a bookstore in Charleroi... _Mark_

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's a different one, although it seems most of the story lines are very similar. I've skimmed that one enough to know the story-line but I haven't looked up all the new words yet.

The four I have are "Little Polar Bear, where are you going?", "...come back again!", "...take me with you!", and "...and the Scaredy-Rabbit". Though there are many more in the series, those are the only four that Nord-Sud Verlag put out in the teeny pocket size, and I refused to carry anything bigger. :-)

Completely irrelevantly...

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I was flipping through a copy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian at work when I noticed one of the ads on the back page was calling for women with severe menstrual pain for a study of some kind (out of UCSF?). Might be worth digging up if you're willing to be a guinea pig.

Re: Completely irrelevantly...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting. At the moment all I've got is continual breakthrough bleeding and continual mild pain, so I might be reluctant to go back to "normal" for a study. But if they're actually going to learn anything about menstrual pain, well, I feel pretty strongly about the value of research into women's pain, so I sure could be tempted...