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-calypso-
04-23-2009, 01:11 PM
http://lost.cubit.net/assets_c/2009/04/5x13_baby_miles_change-thumb-470x264-2478.jpg
Here's the picture...someone knows that book?

Hunkyhurley
04-23-2009, 05:51 PM
it seems to be about a polar bear lol

-calypso-
04-24-2009, 02:58 AM
lol Yeah clearly but i can't read the title... i think it's "Me ------ ------ Polar Bear" or something like that but i can't find anything on google with only that.

Devera
04-24-2009, 11:30 AM
I did some research on this question the other day. It's called Me and My Polar Bear, and as far as we can tell, it isn't a real book outside of LOST world. The back apparently says something about a Polar Star.

RAD24
04-24-2009, 03:42 PM
I did some research on this question the other day. It's called Me and My Polar Bear, and as far as we can tell, it isn't a real book outside of LOST world. The back apparently says something about a Polar Star.

The North Star is called Polaris, and is also called the Pole Star (it is referred to as the northern pole star according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris)

Back to the book, it's interesting that it isn't a real-life book, I wonder why they just didn't use a real one, they have for novels.

Devera
04-24-2009, 03:57 PM
It is interesting, especially since there are a lot of picture books that already exist on polar bears:

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr.
"The Little Polar Bear" book series by Dutch author Hans de Beer
and
The Last Little Polar Bear: A Global Change Adventure Story by Tim Foresman

NBC001
04-25-2009, 03:16 AM
I did some research on this question the other day. It's called Me and My Polar Bear, and as far as we can tell, it isn't a real book outside of LOST world. The back apparently says something about a Polar Star.
Is that just speculation that it isn't a real book outside of Lost?

Devera
04-25-2009, 01:09 PM
NBC001--

Amazon and the major bookstores (both new and used), don't carry it or have it in their system, and a Google search brings up only LOST sites wondering if it is real, so I'm fairly certain. I feel the same way I did about it as when I was first looking up Geronimo Jackson, only slightly more certain because I'm more familiar with searching for obscure books online.

Maybe it was just supposed to draw our attention to all polar bear picture books? Maybe it continues the trend of all books in the 70s having no titles or not being real? I don't know, apparently some people could see part of the summary on the back, but other than reading about the Polar Star bit on other sites, I can't tell from that screen capture what it says.

Hunkyhurley
04-26-2009, 12:48 PM
I checked Barnes and noble and wasnt able to find it-I dont think its real. It is odd that with hundreds of polar bear books they would create one, or pick one so obscure that you can't purchase it on any website.

riot-girl
04-26-2009, 08:08 PM
Well if it isn't real, then there must be a good reason for it. It's not like LOST to have faux-books, as been said.

skellemesago
04-26-2009, 09:07 PM
I would have liked to see Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear but when I checked, I couldn't find a catalog record for it earlier than 1991. I suppose the prop dept. decided it was easier to make up a new book than find a worthwhile children's book that dated no later than 1977, especially when what they wanted was just a big polar bear tie-in.

I did wonder why the script insisted Baby!Miles be only three months, when they were making a point of showing Chang reading to him. I thought three-month-olds didn't have enough head control for the way the scene was staged and it distracted me. They could just as easily have made the baby six months old, which was probably closer to the kid's real age.

dp2
04-27-2009, 09:35 AM
It's 1977 on the show. It probably wasn't worth looking for an actual 1977 edition of an existing polar bear book for the scene (and you know that if they used a modern edition, they'd catch hell for such a flagrant error).

Calliope
04-27-2009, 10:06 AM
http://lost.cubit.net/assets_c/2009/04/5x13_baby_miles_change-thumb-470x264-2478.jpg
Here's the picture...someone knows that book?


That's such a sweet photo.

Avius
04-27-2009, 03:27 PM
How many other kids have the polar bears been tied to? And bears in general. They seem to occur in the context of children or young people, don't they?