2.24 Chizuko Kuratomi, Mr Bear, Postman (1978)

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2.24 Chizuko Kuratomi, Mr Bear, Postman, illustrated by Kozo Kakimoto (1978)

While reading this to my girl (almost three), I realised it's another book for the challenge!

Although this was published in the 1970s and is part of a series, I had not ever come across them. But apparently the books were reviewed in *Harpers Queen*, *Books for Your Children* and the *Times Literary Supplement* and were quite well known.

It's a nice kid's story, about a bear delivering mail to rabbits. I must say, though, that I found it off-putting that he delivers letters to an 'elderly rabbit'. It just seems so dismissive, as though she is some kind of shut in.