Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"Oskar and and his bear Theodore must save the day when an angry monster barges into the library...and thinks it's an all-you-can-eat buffet!"--

Little Bear longs to be as big and fast as his mother. In the arctic snow, Mother Bear shows the little polar cub what it's like to be grown up.

A caterpillar reassures a worried bear that they will see each other again when the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.

Bear and Bird are best friends, and they spend a lot of time together. They don't always understand each other, but both agree that all they want is for their friend to be happy. So when Bear forgets the most important thing to pack for a picnic (but pretends that he didn't), Bird doesn't let on that she knew all along. And when Bird is upset to discover her friend has more of a certain talent than she does, Bear finds a touching way to make her feel...

Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear, who do everything together, discover the importance of taking time to spend by themselves.

The love and affection between a parent and child are captured in an oversized board book edition of a best-selling gentle, rhyming tale in which they share giggles, meals, messes and plenty of love. --Publisher

A bear sees that humans fill their garages, or "caves," with things and he decides to do the same, until there is no room for him to even move around in his cave home.

A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room.

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.