Act three scene three of the Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare
Bear Goes to Town, by Anthony Browne (Peter’s recommendation)
Bertie and the Bear, by Pamela Allen (Les and Bea’s recommendation)
Brown bear brown bear by Bill Martin. Here’s Bill Martin reading it:
Corduroy, by Don Freeman. Here’s Jackie Bouquio reading it:
He bear she bear, by Stan and Jan Berenstain
I Hate My Teddy Bear, by David McKee
Little Bear, by Else Holmelund Minarik. There are several of these, and they’re nice and easy to read.
Mary Plain, by Gwynedd Rae (Catherine’s recommendation)
No Word for Wilderness: Italy’s Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth, by Roger Thompson
Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman
Paddington, by Michael Bond (Strawberry’s choice)
Peace at Last, by Jill Murphy
Rupert Bear
Semolina (First Helping), by Buster Brown (recommended by Catherine)
Teddy Robinson
The Bear’s Bicycle, by Emilie Warren McLeod (recommended by Walrus). This is David McPhail the illustrator reading it:
The Bears and I, by Robert Franklin Leslie
The Best Day of the Week, by Hannah Cole
The Bike Lesson, by Stan and Jan Berenstain (chosen by Tom). William Sarris is reading it aloud here:
The Pantomime Witch, by Hannah Cole and Dawn Aldridge (suggested by Jenny – the story is based on something terrible that happened to Jenny long ago at the Festival Hall in London). It’s the third of the three stories in “The Best Day of the Week”.
The Story of Horace, by Alice M. Coats (chosen by Lopsy)
The Story of the Three Bears (Ellie’s choice)
The Story of the Three Bears by Eleanor Mure, 1831, metrically related with illustrations: https://vulnerableteddy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Story-of-the-Three-Bears.pdf (you’ll have to press PAGE DOWN to read it all) (I prefer paper pages)
Two Big Bears, in Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ursula Bear by Sheila Lavelle (Bimbo’s choice)
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (Points’s choice – she’s a big Michael Rosen fan) This is Michael Rosen reading it himself
Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne (Teddy’s choice)
How about the Little Bear books, by Else Holmelund Minarik? nice Sendak pictures.
Oh yes! I’ll put them on the list
What about ‘Bear Goes to Town’ by Anthony Browne?
I want to read it! I see that it has suspense and magical problem solving. I’ll look for it when the libraries are open again.
I’ve never read that. It looks very nice.