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The Arkansaw Bear

arkansaw bear paine ver beck 1st book cover

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Author(s):Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s):Frank Ver Beck
Publisher(s): R. H. Russell
Year Published: 1898
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Animal Fantasy
Boys Growing Up
Fantasy - American
Fiction - Novel
Humorous
Running away Home
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 120
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 752949450

Description

Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.

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Other Editions

The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Henry Altemus Company
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