What is the author's style in the novel, The Woman Who Loved a Bear?

The Woman Who Loved a Bear has a frame structure. The frame consists of the interaction between the storyteller and his grandson. Yolen says that she hopes that the grandson will give her audience a modern perspective, a way for the audience to observe and understand the events in an old tale. Having the grandfather tell the story also personalizes it. Rather than having an objective point of view, the story has a biased narrator who is trying to convey to his audience cultural values that are important to him. The effect of this on Yolen's audience may be to pay closer attention than usual to the story in an effort to figure out why the grandfather regards it as important.