But by the time the mid-1990s rolled around and Little Bear was turned into a TV show, that had changed. The first Little Bear book was published in 1957, six years before Where the Wild Things Are and thirteen years before In the Night Kitchen. I didn’t know that she refused one publisher who wanted to change the bears to people because “all children of all colours would be reading the stories” and she wanted them to not be excluded.
I didn’t know that Holmelund Minarik, a former journalist and teacher, wrote them for her own daughter because she wasn’t satisfied with the books that were being published for young children. I didn’t know that Little Bear started the category of early readers (something that gets stamped all over the current editions).
Of course, at the time I was completely unaware of the history of the books. They’re gentle, funny books, and as a wee thing, I loved the world and the magic that Holmelund Minarik and Sendak created between them. The books were written by Else Holmelund Minarik and the original five were illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Little Bear, unlike the other two, is not illustrated by the author. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.When I was little, I fell in love with the classic early readers. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America.
He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. This much-loved author continues to write stories for children at her home in North Carolina. Publication of this book, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, launched the I Can Read series. Else Holmelund Minarik first introduced readers to her timeless character in the classic Little Bear.
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