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 ...

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 ...

Picture book writers whose works look different from one another because they’re illustrated by different artists are less apt to be on your radar. From “Big Bear and Little Bear Go ...

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 ...

In this expertly crafted board book by Schneider, readers can compare the personal effects of brown, anthropomorphic Big Bear and child Little Bear. Set against swaths of paint, each spread features ...

A Bear to Share will be published by HarperCollins Publishers on Oct. 26 Jessica Alba wants to teach little ones about "empathy" and "giving back" with her upcoming children's book, A Bear to Share.

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 ...

“Wyoming is bear country,” Tom Reed writes in Great Wyoming Bear Stories, a book of yarns from the wild high county in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks — land he calls the grizzly ...