Bear by Kiri Lightfoot

Bear by Kiri Lightfoot

The powerful, humorous yet sensitive story of Jasper, a talented young artist, who learns to face his anger.

'I really enjoyed this storyI absolutely adored Jasper - what a great character and such a brilliant narrator - so smart and funny and flawed. This is such an important story and I hope it finds its way into the hands and hearts of so many young people. It is such a tender and wickedly humorous exploration of mental illness and grief and anger and how we define ourselves.' KAREN FOXLEE bestselling author of Lenny's Book of Everything


'Wonderfully fresh and engaging.' Tessa Duder

Kiri Lightfoot is an NZ-based author and actor. She has worked as a scriptwriter in children's television and as an actor both for theatre and screen. She continues to work part-time in television and also runs poetry reading sessions in aged-care homes and hospitals with charity 'Active Arts'. Kiri worked for many years as a telephone counsellor with Youthline and as a volunteer mentor in an alternative education school. Bear is her first novel for young adults and was inspired by working with young people at this time. Kiri is now a mother of three school-aged children and lives in central Auckland. Her previous books are picture books: Ming's Iceberg, illustrated by Kimberly Andrews (Scholastic 2021) and Every Second Friday, illustrated by Ben Galbraith (Hodder Children's Books 2008), a shortlist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2009.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781991006936
ISBN 10	1991006934
Title	Bear
Author	Kiri Lightfoot
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Allen & Unwin
Year published	2025-03-04
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Winner 2024 (New Zealand)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.