Else Holmelund Minarik Maurice Sendark 1st Ed 1968 A Kiss for Little Bear HC DJ

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A Kiss for Little Bear
An I Can Read Book

by

Else Holmelund Minarik

Pictures by Maurice Sendak

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Row Publishers, New York. 1968.  Unpaginated. Illustrated with Color Plates. First Edition/First Printing (price of 2.75 present, four blurbs present to the rear flap).

DJ has chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in matching illustrated paper covered boards. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Little Bear is so pleased with the picture he has drawn that he asks Hen to take it to his grandmother. Grandmother is so happy with it that she sends him back a thank-you kiss.

How the kiss is passed from Grandmother, to Hen, to Cat, to Little Skunk, to a skunk, and back to Little Skunk, and how eventually it comes again to Hen and finally to Little Bear will delight children just learning to read.

A Kiss for Little Bear is among the beloved classic Little Bear books from Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak. The first, Little Bear, launched the I Can Read early reader series in 1957.

In the Little Bear stories, we meet Little Bear, whose adventures are filled with humor and joy. And we meet Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. And, of course, she never forgets his birthday.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

The series is rated by level and widely used to teach children to read English. The first book in the series was Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear, published in 1957 (see below), and subsequent notable titles have included Amelia Bedelia and Frog and Toad.

Little Bear is a series of children's books, primarily involving the interaction of Little Bear (a small cub) and Mother Bear (Little Bear's Mother), and the yearning he has for his father who is a ship's captain and absent for long periods. The first book in the series was published in 1957, written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Initially the stories were simple, but eventually became more sophisticated in subsequent books as the plot and characters expanded.

The first four Little Bear books consist of four stories, each of which involves Little Bear and a slowly expanding cast of support characters, each named after their respective species. The Little Bear character and his immediate family display many bear-like characteristics and mannerisms, but only on occasion. They live in a culture and technology which seems to be the woodland equivalent of a Little House on the Prairie setting, but with richer items. Little Bear is depicted as friendly and adventurous with his animal friends.

This series of books went on to spawn a TV series of the same name, including specials and a "feature length" direct-to-video release, the movie entitled The Little Bear Movie. The series was produced by Nelvana and starred Kristin Fairlie as the voice of Little Bear.

The five original Little Bear books were all illustrated by Maurice Sendak. In 2010, two years before her death, Else Holmelund Minarik published a sixth Little Bear book, Little Bear and the Marco Polo, which was illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday.