Adventures of Sonny Bear

Chapter 2: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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About This Book

The collection presents gentle short tales about Sonny Bear and his family, recounting homely adventures in the woods and nearby fields. Episodes include a mother's quick thinking to save her cub, a cub's encounter with an elder grizzly, bird parties and picnics, seasonal chores like making maple sugar and pickles, and imaginative excursions to enchanted places and Goldilocks' camp. Each story highlights everyday courage, neighborliness, curiosity, and the rhythms of rural nature while offering simple moral lessons and warm portrayals of animal domestic life for young readers.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are extended the following publishers for permission to reprint the following stories in book form: The Youth's Companion, for "Grandfather Grizzly," "Baby Bear's Party," "Sonny Bear's Adventure in Goldilocks' Camp," "When the Storm Came"; The Churchman, for "How Mother Bear Saved Her Baby," "When Mother Bear Made Pickles"; St. Nicholas, for "How Little Bear Went to a Picnic"; The Continent, for "Three Bears in the Enchanted Land"; Woman's World, for "Little Bear and Bob White's Children."

Mother Bear put Sonny Bear in his wooden cradle

ADVENTURES OF SONNY BEAR