Little Bear Book Set

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Winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, in 1970 Sendak became the first American illustrator to receive the international Hans Christian Andersen Award, given in recognition of his entire body of work. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book does wonders for dispelling the fear of the dark as well as for encouraging the patience of parents everywhere.

Featuring large card flaps with friendly animals which are easy for even the littlest hands to grab, babies will enjoy reaching for these books again and again. My severe learning difficulties nursery class are reading the book as part of their literacy lessons which they absolutely love. And in the picture we see this bear, quite enormously huge, filling the whole of the glowing red page. This story depicts patience and kindness on the part of big bear, where he goes to great lengths to help little bear realise that the dark is nothing to be afraid of.

Looking for more dad books, as I believe this will be the first Father's Day theme I've done in storytime. Dear Mili, Sendak's interpretation of a newly discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm, was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1988. It will make them laugh as well as allowing them to do choral reading as Little Bear constantly repeats the same phrase every time he complains about the dark! One thing I don't understand is why "Birthday Soup" is written in the present tense while the three other stories are in the past tense. The series was animated by Canadian studio Nelvana and starred Kristin Fairlie as the voice of Little Bear.

Celebrate 25 years of Big Bear, Little Bear and their cosy cave in this gorgeous anniversary edition of a classic bedtime favourite. From the estate of a private library belonging to the author and illustrator Valerie Littlewood with her signature to the front end paper. RJ grew up in Leamington Spa before moving down to Devon to study illustration at the University of Plymouth in Exeter and never went home again!The book also contains a lot of inverted commas so it could be used as an example for teaching those in grammar. The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, kindred in spirit to The Lost Words, that introduces a beautiful new set of natural spell-poems and artwork. Green leafy background with Green rectangle containing title in black lettering followed by Author's name in smaller type.