Can't You Sleep, Little Bear
By (Author) Martin Waddell
Illustrated by Barbara Firth
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
1st September 2013
5th September 2013
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Winner of Kate Greenaway Medal (CILIP) 1988 (UK)
Paperback
32
Width 215mm, Height 260mm, Spine 4mm
175g
Little Bear can't sleep. There is dark all around him in the Bear Cave. Not even Big Bear's biggest lantern can light up the darkness of the night outside. But then Big Bear fi nds the prefect way to reassure Little Bear and help him fall fast asleep...
The most perfect children's book ever written. * The Sunday Times *
Wonderfully reassuring for small children. I cannot praise this picture book too highly. It will delight reader and listener alike. * The Sunday Telegraph *
Martin Waddell is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest living writers of books for children. His work includes Farmer Duck, Owl Babies and the 1989 Kurt Maschler Award-winning The Park in the Dark, also illustrated by Barbara Firth. In 2004 he won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. Barbara Firth won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Can't You Sleep, Little Bear She illustrated over 30 picture books in her lifetime, including You and Me, Little Bear; Sleep Tight, Little Bear; Let's Go Home, Little Bear; Tom Rabbit; and the 1989 Kurt Maschler Award-winning The Park in the Dark.