A giant, scruffy, bewildered polar bear turns up in Tilly’s house. No words — just Briggs’s astonishing comic-strip panels of wonder, mischief, and eventual heartbreak. Parents think it’s about loneliness and growing up; kids just love the bear using the toilet and sleeping in Tilly’s bed. A wordless masterpiece that still leaves classrooms silent and teary-eyed thirty years later.
