Books with title The Bear Who Came to Stay

Nobody likes being stared at—as Bear soon finds out! This is a fun book that introduces children to manners.There once was a bear who liked to STARE. Bear doesn't mean to be rude, he's just curious . . . but nobody likes being stared at and it soon gets Bear into trouble. The ladybugs find somewhere else to eat, the birds shoo him away, and an annoyed badger bites his nose. Luckily there's a googly-eyed frog to set Bear straight! He teaches Bear to smile and say "Hello" when looking at people, and Bear is able to make lots of friends. But he still likes to stare at his own reflection!

A gentle, humorous story has a significant message of love and acceptance.The first baby arrived on the mail plane, the second two on the ferry, the fourth asleep on a pile of nets, smelling of mackerel. Who were the babies? Where did they come from? The notes left with them said "Please keep this baby safe" and "Please give my child shelter." Only the librarian can take them home, and the library is where they grow up. The whole island helps to raise them. The fisherman teaches them to cast from the pier, the ferryman shows them charts of the sea, and from the harbormaster they learn to recognize birds. "Who are you?" other children ask. "Why don't you look alike?" The librarian gathers them in her arms. "Families don't always look alike," she says. "And where we're going is more important than where we came from." This charming, lighthearted fairytale contains a message of acceptance that is particularly significant for our time.

"The rib-thin, black-and-white rabbit hound turned up at Hal Borland's Connecticut farm one Christmas night in the middle of a nasty winter storm. Pat, as the dog came to be known, and his raffish travelling companion, a young pup, 'were even more unwelcome than the weather,' but after a few preliminaries both settled in as members of the Borland household. The pup eventually found his permanent home elsewhere, but Pat became Hal Borland's true companion - and a local legend, the terror of woodchucks for miles around. With his keen sensitivity to the natural world, Borland here recounts, with deep affection and wonder, how a man and his dog can form a magical and unforgettable partnership. First published in 1961, THE DOG WHO CAME TO STAY 'will appeal to many sportsmen and to all people who have ever been closely attached to a dog.' (The New York Times Book Review)

A lovely story that is good for sharing with a mixture of ages, and for reading alone, the illustrations are beautiful and the fact that all the animals are based on real life adds an extra layer to everything. —Book reviewer, Carole HeidiCB the Croissant Bird is back! This time, our brave little catbird meets an actual cat named Charlotte. And that’s when Mr. and Mrs. Potter make a surprising discovery.Exquisitely illustrated by American wildlife artist, Shelley K. Shaw, and filled with fun bird facts, authors William Armitage and Wendy Barry bring you the (mostly) true story about the real-life friendship between the Potters, a croissant-eating catbird, and a cat named Charlotte. A charming tale inspired by a real-life catbird.“A beautifully written tale of opposites that find an understanding and acceptance of one another despite the odds. In creating yet another beautiful CB book for children, the authors show us that common ground can be found in the most unlikely of alliances.”—Traci Medford-Rosow, USAToday bestselling author of Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey through Darkness to Sight.

During a fierce snowstorm, an abandoned and hungry animal howls at the back door of nature writer Hal Borland's farmhouse, announcing the beginning of a transformational friendship Hal Borland and his wife Barbara have recently moved onto a hundred-acre farm in northwest Connecticut, where both hope to write and live in harmony with nature. From his New England home, Borland travels the country searching for material for his New York Times "outdoor editorials"-but soon nature comes searching for him, in the form of a miserable, half-starved, deeply trusting, black-and-white foxhound mutt that wanders onto the farm during a blizzard. The dog, Pat, becomes a member of the family and teaches Borland that, often, our most immediate connection to the natural world is through the animals we live with.