There’s nothing quite so humbling as the gaze that young children fix on the faces of the adults they love. They study our expressions, take cues from our reactions, and—whether anyone likes it or not ...

CALABASH | Else Holmelund Minarik lives quietly on the edge of what she calls Frog Heaven in Brunswick County. Sitting at a long antique harvest table facing a window wall overlooking the marsh, she ...

Else Holmelund Minarik, a children’s writer whose simple yet elegant prose in the “Little Bear” picture-book series has helped generations of youngsters learn to read, died July 12 at her home in ...

From Little Bear's 1957 debut as the launch title in the I Can Read series to the direct-to-video release of The Little Bear Movie, the ursine hero, originally created by Else Holmelund Minarik and ...

Whether you are discovering or rediscovering it, Anthony Browne’s “The Little Bear Book” was reissued this year. You’ll find this book to be as fresh and timeless as it was when first published over ...

Little Bear, one of the most cherished characters in all of children's literature, comes to life in Nick Jr.'s animated series. Produced by Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the ...

Else Holmelund Minarik, the acclaimed children’s book author best known for her Little Bear books for early readers, died on July 12 at her home in Sunset Beach, N.C., of complications from a recent ...

Michael Bond, creator of the beloved Paddington Bear books, died Tuesday at 91. The classic children's book character is a scruffy little bear prone to accidents, but he means well. The story goes ...

Kindness is the key to “Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear” television series. And that theme is celebrated in the new “Little Bear” home video, “Friends” (Paramount, $10, available now), which groups ...