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Fat Bear Week 2022

It’s time once again for Fat Bear Week! Fat Bear Week is the delightful celebration of rotund brown bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The bears awaken from hibernation in the spring and spend the summer preparing to hibernate again, getting as fat as possible before winter comes. By late summer/early fall, the bears are at their fattest! During Fat Bear Week, people can vote for their favorite fat bear in a face-off against other fat bears.

The book we’re opening Fat Bear Week with this year is Goldilocksaaq Pingayun-Ilu Taqukaat, a translation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Paschal Afcan in an Eskimo-Aleut language, with illustrations by Cathi Hankinson. The book was published in 1971 for the Eskimo Language Workshop of the Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages at the University of Alaska for the Bilingual Education Program of the Alaska Rural School Project. It’s likely that the language is Yup’ik, as Paschal Afcan has written or translated many other books in the language, but please correct me if I’m wrong!

We’re focusing on just the bears from the book and leaving out that colonizer, Goldilocks. The most relevant images from the book for Fat Bear Week are Mother Bear making the porridge, Baby Bear looking hungrily at it, and then Baby Bear crying a single tear when he realizes that Goldilocks has eaten all of his porridge. How dare she deny a hungry bear his porridge! Doesn’t she know he needs it to get fat for winter?!

Voting is now open for Fat Bear Week, so get out there and vote for those fat bears!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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