My sister (who was five at the time) received the book as a present when she started grade one in September 1976, but I ended up hijacking it for a while, as I wanted to practice reading English and Little Bear was at that time just the right level of difficulty for me. Yes, I vaguely but nostalgically do remember Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear from the time we immigrated from Germany to Canada when I was ten. This is one of the books from James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die A Life-Changing List. Of course, if you are going to read this, you definitely have to do the voices for Little Bear, Mother Bear, and all of the animals. Little Bear also comes off as a bit whiny. It felt a bit like the author wrote a book leveraging animals with the hope that using animals would carry the book. This book had decent illustrations, but it didn't have the same magic as Winnie the Pooh. Perhaps he was killed by hunters off page because we never hear from him. I'm not sure what happened to Daddy Bear. Little Bear is a collection of four short stories which focuses primarily on Little Bear, his animals friends, and Mother Bear.
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