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Bears Genre
Books in the Bears genre:
Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
Christopher Robin’s Old Sailor and Other Selections from A.A. Milne (1947)
Stories and poems from the Winnie-the-Pooh corpus.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Blueberries for Sal (1948)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Golden Sleepy Book (1948)
This is a collection of stories, poems and songs about sleep.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Look Out, Baby Bears, Here He Comes! (1948)
The mother and father bears are just resting from their long winter sleep, but the twin baby bears want to play.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Buttons and Mac Adventure Again (1949)
A story about Buttons, a teddy bear, and his best friend Mac, a Scottie dog.
Author(s):
Ursula Hourihane
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The House at Pooh Corner (1950)
The second book of stories about Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. This is the newly reset edition.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Now We Are Six (1950)
More poems about Christopher Robin and his friends. This edition was reset and the illustrations re-engraved.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
When We Were Very Young (1950)
This book of poems, originally published in Punch, introduced Christopher Robin and Edward (Winnie-the-Pooh) Bear.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Winnie-the-Pooh (1950)
The first collection of stories about Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. The type was reset and the illustrations recut for this edition.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Great Big Wild Animal Book (1951)
Portraits of our wild animal friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (1952)
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Biggest Bear (1952)
The Black Bear Twins (1952)
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy and Freginald (1952)
Freginald, the bear poet, joins Mr. Boomschmidt’s Circus and meets Freddy the pig poet. This is the British edition of The Story of Freginald.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Children’s Hour Volume 14 (1953)
An anthology of animal stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Pierre Bear (1954)
Pierre Bear lives in the North Woods with his family.
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Smokey the Bear (1955)
The legend of the little bear who went on to become a spokesman for the National Forests.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Snow White and Rose Red: A Favorite Fairy Tale (1955)
Two sisters befriend a bear on a snowy winter’s night. When summer comes they encounter an evil dwarf. When the two meet the fur flies.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The True Story of Smokey the Bear (1955)
Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Three Little Animals (1956)
The two older little animals decide to dress up and go out and see the world of men. The littlest animal makes a suit of clothes then follows them and brings them home.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Warmhearted Polar Bear (1957)
Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.
Author(s):
Robert Murphy
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The World of Pooh (1957)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Baby Wild Animals (1958)
A stamp book featuring wild animals.
Author(s):
John Wallace Purcell
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
Author(s):
Michael Bond
Illustrator(s):
Peggy Fortnum
Three Bedtime Stories (1958)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Wild Animal Babies from All Over the World (1958)
Twenty-two wild animal babies from a buffalo to a skunk selected from the Baby Wild Animals stamp book.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Winnie Ille Pu (1960)
The adventures of Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends rendered into Latin.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Good Night, Little Bear (1961)
Good night, Little Bear - but he doesn’t want to go to bed.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Little Old Bear (1962)
An abandoned teddy bear finds a new home.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Hop on Pop (1963)
More nonsense from Dr. Seuss.
Read online at archive.org.
Jeremy Bear (1963)
An abandoned teddy bear finds a new home. This is the British edition.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Jungle Books (1963)
The complete adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Shoe Shop Bears (1963)
The adventures of three teddy bears who live in the shoe store of an English town.
Author(s):
Margaret J. Baker
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Twenty-Two Bears (1964)
Each of the twenty-two members of a bear family is counted in this book.
Author(s):
Claire Huchet Bishop
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Gentle Ben (1965)
The story of the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walt Morey
Illustrator(s):
John Schoenherr
The Golden Calendar 1966 (1965)
A calendar and activity book with a bear family.
Author(s):
Peggy Parish
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Pooh Story Book (1965)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Christmas Bear (1966)
Mishka, the stuffed bear, gives himself to a sick little boy on Christmas.
Author(s):
Marie Colmont
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Christopher Robin Book of Verse (1967)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Three Bears (1967)
A new retelling of this favorite story.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Robert Southey
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Pooh’s Pot O’Honey (1968)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)
Surely the largest, most inclusive animal picture book of them all.
Author(s):
Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Gobble, Growl, Grunt (1971)
A book of animal sounds.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Richard Scarry’s Best Stories Ever (1971)
An anthology of Richard Scarry’s books for Golden Press.
Author(s):
Vivienne Benstead
Kathryn Jackson
Patricia Scarry
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Rojankovsky’s Wonderful Picture Book (1972)
A collection of some of Rojankovsky’s best illustrations from the Golden Books.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Georges Duplaix
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Night Ride (1973)
Three abandoned toys escape the dustbin and go on an exciting ride through the night to find a new home.
Author(s):
Aingelda Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Winnie-the-Pooh (1973)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The House at Pooh Corner (1974)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Smartest Bear and His Brother Oliver (1975)
Author(s):
Alice Bach
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Most Delicious Camping Trip Ever (1976)
Ronald and Oliver, the twin bear cubs, go camping with Aunt Bear. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Alice Bach
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Noah’s Ark (1977)
Peter Spier tells the story in pictures of Noah, the Ark and the Flood.
Author(s):
Jacobus Revius
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Millicent the Magnificent (1978)
The bear twins, Oliver and Ronald, want to be acrobats like Millicent. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Alice Bach
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Domus Anguli Puensis (1980)
A Latin translation of The House at Pooh Corner.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Warren Weasel’s Worse than Measles (1980)
Author(s):
Alice Bach
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Hilary Knight’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (1981)
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me …
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Alphabears (1984)
The bears from Amanda to Zak learn their ABC’s.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Numbears (1984)
Teddy bears introduce the numbers from one to twelve.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Polar Bear Cat (1984)
A cat dreams of being a polar bear.
Author(s):
Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Bear’s Birthday (1985)
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Colin McNaughton
Favorite Nursery Tales (1986)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Out of the Nursery, Into the Night (1986)
A collection of teddy bear dreams.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Bear Hugs (1989)
Short poems about bears.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Big Bear’s Treasury Volume One (1992)
A collection of stories and poems by various authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Et al
Big Bear’s Treasury Volume Two (1992)
A collection of stories and poems by various authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Et al
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic (1992)
Author(s):
Jimmy Kennedy
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
J. B.’s Harmonica (1993)
JB’s father plays the harmonica and so does he. Or should he?
Author(s):
John Sebastian
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Random House Book of Easy-to-Read Stories (1993)
A collection of sixteen stories by favorite authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Jan Berenstain
Stan Berenstain
Dr. Seuss
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tomie dePaola
Richard Scarry
Et al
Big Bear’s Treasury Volume Three (1994)
A collection of stories and poems by various authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Antonia Barber
Various
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Et al
The Candlewick Book of Animal Tales (1996)
A collection of stories and poems by various authors and illustrators. Includes Polar Bear Cat by Nicola Bayley.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Et al
Calendarbears: A Book of Months (1997)
Each month of the year with the bear family.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Bravest Ever Bear (1999)
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Paul Howard
Ten Little Bears (1999)
A counting rhyme featuring teddy bears.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Hilary Knight’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (2001)
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me …
This new edition is in a slightly larger format and includes new endpapers and sheet music.
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Love Songs of the Little Bear (2001)
Four poems by a famous writer, illustrated by a famous artist.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Teddy Bears’ Mother Goose (2001)
A nursery rhyme book featuring teddy bears.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Sleep Tight, Sleepy Bears (2012)
Another lullaby from the archives.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Julie Clay
Can I Come Too? (2013)
A mouse journeys to see the largest creature, picking up other curious animals along the way.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Brian Patten
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley