Else Holmelund MinarikRed Fox Picture Books Little Bear

This book was oddly charming. So simple yet my children loved listening to me read it to them. I think my 9 year old felt a bit baffled as to why he enjoyed listening to it. He's quite advanced for his age and so are his choices of books but found this oddly captivating lool. It's been a delight to read to them!

Our 6 children loved 'Little Bear' over 30 years ago and their children are similarly delighted with these deceptively simple, direct, warm and lovely tales...like being wrapped in a cuddly woolly blanket. The beautiful illustrations perfectly complement the text and the stories (in individual books when our children were introduced to them) were the ones the children always wanted to come back to...night after night after night....

This lovely, simple story has plenty of the rhythmic repetition that children love - whether as a listening story, as my children loved this, or more prosaically as a learning-to-read book.The quizzical illustrations are a perfect delight, the tone just right and without the 'clever' adult patronising with which so much British children's literature is blighted...

sweet little book for my young grandaughter

I loved this book when my own children were small, so I bought it for my grandson. Children will enjoy the simple text and clear pictures, while adults will recognise the character of little bear and the frustrations of his mother.