Little Bear has been floating around our house for years. We have read it several times. The book we have is a 1957 version, and I am constantly surprised when my girls pick this book. We have a lot of children's books to choose from and most don't look as worn, dated, and faded as this book. It is a testament to its quality that it continues to be picked up despite the flashier choices available. It was selected by my six-year-old for a bedtime book. I had the six-year-old on one side and the four-year-old on the other while I read the book. The text, which is incredibly simple, moved the ten-year-old from the other side of the room to listen and look at the pictures.
This is a simple chapter book containing several short stories about Little Bear and Mother Bear. It really feels like the Else Holmelund Minarik was able to climb inside the mind of a child when she wrote the book.
Recently I got out a big bin of old Legos for the girls to play with. Legos were some of my favorite toys when I was a child, but when I go to play with them now, I find that I have virtually no creativity. I don't know what to do with them. But I am with the girls, I remember what it was like to create and have my mind explode with ideas for making. I find it hard to tap into that creativity, but I enjoy watching them. Little Bear feels like it was written by a child who still had that simple creativity, rather than an adult that is trying to remember what it is like to have that creativity. This is a wonderful book.
Format: paper
Read/don't read: read
This book can be purchased from Amazon.com here: Little Bear
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