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Bear Country Online |
BOOK REVIEW |
Bears
in the Night
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One of the best-loved books of all-time Every person has a
favorite. Every author has a one that sells better
than the rest. But "Bears in the Night" does something even more
special - it is a book that people *love* unlike any other. Readers of all
ages are drawn to its simple text; millions can recite them almost word for
word... "down the tree ... over the bridge
..." Combined with brilliant
illustrations so distinctive of the early days of the Berenstain
Bears, a beautiful marriage of words and pictures becomes a work of art.
"Bears in the Night" is a book for bedtime, story time, any time.
It is a book for Halloween, a book for camp. It is a book for all places and
all people and all times. Call me sentimental, but a
hundred years from now, "Bears in the Night" will remain. It may
not sell as many copies as "The Cat in the Hat" or teach a lesson
like "The Berenstain Bears and the Messy
Room," but it will always have worn corners... it will always cause a
child's jaw to drop or eyes to widen... it will always hold a place in
people's hearts... and as a result, Spook Hill and the safety of that tree
house deep in Bear Country will be more than places on paper, but dreams and
fantasies and real living places inside the minds and hearts of every person
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