Tag: bear
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December 19, 2018
What’s under my tree? Books. Books to read. And some books that I have read and will read again. On top of the pile: A Bear Called Paddington. My mother gave me that (now-battered, much-loved, many-times read) book for Christmas in1972. I remember sitting under the tree, unwrapping it on Christmas morning. I was in…
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August 8, 2017
I remember unwrapping a paperback copy of A Bear Called Paddington one Christmas morning. I was eight years old; and I was utterly, completely captivated by the picture of Paddington on the cover. I hadn’t read a word, but already I was in love. I stayed in love all through my childhood. Sometimes, when I…
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June 16, 2015
I was in Alaska last week. I ran into a lot of bears. Bears always make me think of Miss Franny Block. In Because of Winn-Dixie, Miss Franny Block tells Opal the story of the bear who came into her library and left with a book. She finishes by saying that everyone who remembers those…
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February 28, 2012
My mother gave me a Yearling paperback copy of A Bear Called Paddington one year for Christmas. In Chapter Three, Paddington journeys into the Underground where he is trailed by a pack of dogs (this has to do with a piece of bacon stowed in the bear’s suitcase), involved in a nasty altercation with a…
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June 30, 2011
(Acceptance speech from the Theodor Suess Geisel Award ceremony for Bink and Gollie): “I’m going to fly to the moon.” These are the first words I read on my own. The sentence is from Else Holmelund Minarik’s book Little Bear; and the words appear beneath an illustration by Maurice Sendak that shows Little Bear in…