![]() ![]() Little Bear was also adapted into an animated television show that aired on Nickelodeon beginning in the mid-1990s. Else Holmelund Minarik first introduced readers to her timeless character in the classic Little Bear. Minarik eventually wrote more than 40 children’s books, the most recent being Little Bear and the Marco Polo, illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday, which came out in 2010. Little Bear was published in 1957 the author-illustrator duo then partnered on the book No Fighting, No Biting! and went on to collaborate on several more Little Bear titles, including Little Bear’s Visit, which was a Caldecott Honor book in 1962. The combination of Else Holmelund Minariks simple, yet eloquent, stories and Maurice Sendaks warm, tender illustrations have made this beloved character. Nordstrom found in Minarik’s “Little Bear” manuscript the ideal title to launch her company’s I Can Read series, and asked Maurice Sendak to illustrate it. She submitted some of those stories, about a bear who acts like a preschooler, to Ursula Nordstrom at Harper and Row. ![]() Minarik had observed a dearth of easy-to-read books on the market for Brooke, so she penned some of her own, which she also introduced to her young students. Minarik had said that her daughter Brooke, a precocious early reader, initially inspired her to try her hand at writing stories for children. ![]() During the early 1940s Minarik worked as reporter for the Daily Sentinel of Rome, N.Y., and later, responding to a shortage of teachers created by WWII, she began teaching first grade in a public school in Commack, Long Island. ![]()
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