By Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
This is a really interesting book because it introduces a human character into a world of animals. When a children's book brings a human child into a make believe world, it risks breaking the fourth wall.
The whole way through I'm waiting for the author to slip up and make it awkward, but it's doesn't really happen. The book continues to have charming, kind and thoughtful characters doing simple things. It's a great little reader, too.
At the end, little bear writes a letter to the little girl. I wonder how that will go over with her parents. But my daughter probably doesn't.
Happily, the adults are never featured.
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