I’m looking for a children’s book early 1980s (or possibly very late 70s). The main character was a young bear who had bionic shoes – Bruce the Bionic Bear? He looked like one of the Berenstain bears, but I can’t seem to track him down that way. When he put his shoes on, he could leap across streams and there was a big rainbow illustrated somewhere in it too.
1980s children’s picture book I loved as a boy. It had wonderful, intricate illustrations of a miniature world (possibly in a tree?), where little humanoid creatures lived. I’m fairly certain there were certain sci-fi elements to it, and possibly some conflict between differently-colored factions. The illustrations included cutaways of tunnels and little cities etc. There may also have been bears with technology (rocket suits?), but that might be mixing up with another book. I’d love for someone to help – I’m a children’s book illustrator now and this was an early influence and inspiration for me.
Thank you!
It’s a chapter book most likely from the 80s or earlier where old-fashioned probably Victorian style dolls live in a toy store and have tea parties where they eat and drink air. A girl buys them and leaves them on a park bench. There may be more to the story after that but I don’t remember.