Little Bear
An Inuit Folktale
World Wisdom · Print & ebook · December 15, 2021
With a foreword by Inuit poet, translator, and politician Kelly Berthelsen.
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- Who it’s for
- An old woman raises a motherless polar bear cub, then recognizes where bears belong.
- Themes
- Loving and letting go, Human–wild animal bond
- Genres
- Bear Stories, Country & Ethnic Folktales, Native Canadian Stories
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With a foreword by Inuit poet, translator, and politician Kelly Berthelsen. Little Bear is a lyrical retelling of an Inuit folktale, sensitively written by award-winning author Dawn Casey and radiantly illustrated by award-winning artist Amanda Hall. When a lonely old woman finds a polar bear cub with no mother of his own, she adopts him, and cares for him as he grows. The bear cub rides in her hood and sleeps by her side.
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The old woman loves the bear like her own child, but her heart also knows: bears belong in the wild. A tender story of loving and letting go, Little Bearcelebrates the relationship between a human being and a wild animal and will touch the hearts of readers young and old.
Bear and Care
An old woman raises a motherless polar bear cub, then recognizes where bears belong.
Come here for
- An Inuit folktale retold by Dawn Casey
- The bond between an old woman and a polar bear cub
Expect
- The cub rides in her hood and sleeps by her side
- A story of care and letting go
Where it sits
| Bear Stories | 75% |
|---|---|
| Country & Ethnic Folktales | 41% |
| Native Canadian Stories | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Bear Stories
- Country & Ethnic Folktales
- Environment & Conservation
- Polar Regions Stories
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- Diversity & Multicultural
- Authors
- Dawn Casey
- Publisher
- World Wisdom
- Published
- December 15, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Loving and letting go · Human–wild animal bond
- Reading lane
- Bear Stories