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Small bear is lost and does not know what to do. He thinks and thinks and he looks at his sailor suit and he decides to be a sailor and sail on the sea. He makes a boat from some pieces of wood and he finds a sea small enough for a small bear and he sails off by the light of the moon. But the sea grows too rough and Bear's boat rocks and rolls and shatters and sinks. Small Bear is shipwrecked on the shore and lies shivering and cold, until next morning when a small girl finds him. She hugs him and takes him home and sets him by the fire to dry. Now Small Bear knows what to do. He'll stay where he is with his new friend and never go to sea again.
Author Notes
Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company.
Waddell is now one of the most prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton.
He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road.
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Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-- A teddy named Small Bear, ``who was lost and had no one to play with,'' wonders what to do and, inspired by his sailor suit, builds a boat and goes to sea. Since he has a small boat, he needs a small sea, and finds one in the park. When a storm comes up, he is shipwrecked on the rocks, where he is discovered by a little girl who takes him home. There he decides, a la ``Corduroy,'' that ``I'm FOUND, and I have someone to play with, so I'll stay where I am!'' The simple, rhythmic text is accompanied by pencil and wash illustrations that convincingly show Small Bear's curiosity and perseverance. An additional purchase for active picture book collections. --Caroline Parr, Central Rappahannock Regional Library, Fredericksburg, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Small Bear is rescued just in time from a soggy adventure at sea; PW called this a "classic, comforting bedtime story." Ages 3-up. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Ages 4-8. Decked out in a sailor suit, Small Bear, lost and without a friend, "thought and thought . . . and he knew what to do." He decides to become a sailor. And he continues to know what to do at each juncture of this seagoing saga--until his makeshift boat crashes, he's washed ashore, and he falls asleep. When he's found and taken home by a young girl, he once again knows just what to do: stay right where he is and never return to the sea. Kids may find the refrain a bit grating, but they will like the happy ending. The softly colored illustrations, boxed text, and bordered pages create a nostalgic mood in this reassuring tale with surefire appeal for children who never tire of listening to stories about bears. ~--Karen Hutt