Let's Go Home, Little Bear - Softcover

Waddell, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564024474 ISBN 13: 9781564024473

Publisher: Candlewick, 1995

Synopsis

Big Bear and Little Bear are returning home from a wonderful romp through the snowy woods, when a noise startles Little Bear. Plod, plod, plod—suddenly the woods are alive with unseen Plodders and Drippers and Ploppers. Poor Little Bear is very scared. But Big Bear is beside him with comforting explanations and a piggyback ride to bring him safely home.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

The beguiling bears introduced in Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? (1992) are coming back from a walk in the snowy woods. When Little Bear tells his huge companion about the noises he hears following them (``Plod, plod, plod...I think it's a Plodder!''), Big Bear reassures him (``The plod was my feet in the snow''; and, later, ``That was the ice as it dripped in the stream''). But though Big Bear keeps saying, ``Come on,'' he ends--as big people do when tired little ones lag--by carrying Little Bear. Varying his comfortably repetitive tale with new sounds that Little Bear reports and new words to describe his slowing pace, Waddell again comes up with a well-nigh perfect nursery tale; he even rounds out his own beautifully constructed story with the one Big Bear tells Little Bear back in the cozy cave: the events of their walk home. Firth re-creates these endearing characters in soft pencil and watercolors of mostly brown and snow-shadow blue, in a relaxed style that perfectly captures the affectionate mood. (Picture book. 2-6) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a starred review, PW called this sequel to Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? simply "delectable." Ages 3-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1564024474
• ISBN 13: 9781564024473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Firth Barbara