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Bears Genre
Books in the Bears genre:
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.
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Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Numbears (1984)
Teddy bears introduce the numbers from one to twelve.
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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