Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
by Lindsay Mattick
illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Age: 4+
Interests: bears, Winnie-the-Pooh books, history, family history, nonfiction
Finding Winnie
24 Oct 2016 2 Comments
in Books, books 4+ Tags: bears, family history, history, nonfiction, zoo
The Whipping Boy
14 May 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+, books 7+ Tags: adventure, bears, crime, friendship, medieval history, orphans, royalty
The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
Age: 6 + (read to); 7 + (independent reading)
Interests: medieval times, adventure, criminals, carnivals and bears
I Want My Hat Back
30 Jan 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, bad behavior, bears, crime, mystery, rabbits
by Jon Klassen
Candlewick Press, 2011
33 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: animals, mystery, crime and punishment, bears and rabbits
Also by this author: This is Not My Hat
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?
21 May 2012 1 Comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: animals, bears, bedtime, night, single parent
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1988
Martin Waddell, text
Barbara Firth, illustrations
Candlewick Press, 1988
30 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: bears, night, bedtime, dark, fears, single parent
The Biggest Bear
05 Jul 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: American history, animals, bears, country life, hunting, nature
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1953
by Lynd Ward
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952
85 pp.
Age: 5+
Interests: nature, farms, hunting, bears
The Little Bear Movie (2001)
19 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 2+ Tags: animals, bears, camping, cooking, nature
Rated: G
Length: 75 min.
Age: 2 and up.
Scary Factor: a mountain lion slinks around but is quickly chased off; flashback to Cub getting separated from his parents during a storm, which isn’t altogether scary simply because it is a flashback; mountain lion returns at end, menaces Goose and Little Bear, then is scared off
Interests: animals, nature
Next: Little Bear TV series
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