Sleep Tight, Little Bear: A beloved bestselling classic for all little bears and their Dads - perfect gift for birthdays, bedtime, toddlers, fathers and grandfathers

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A gentle, heart-warming bedtime tale, featuring the popular Big and Little Bear.

Little Bear has found a little-bear-sized cave to play in ... and when night falls, he decides to sleep there too. But as he looks out of his cave at the moon shining through the dark trees, Little Bear starts to wonder whether Big Bear might not be lonely without him...

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A child's first faltering steps towards independence are poignantly captured. Big Bear and Little Bear have provided a delightful take on some of the critical moments of childhood. * The Guardian *

Author Bio

Born in Belfast, Martin Waddell is the recipient of An Post Irish Book Awards Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award. He was an aspiring football player for many years, before turning his hand to writing. He is now widely regarded as one of the greatest living childrens writers, and has over 220 published titles to his name. He is perhaps best known for Owl Babies, illustrated by Patrick Benson and Farmer Duck, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury; as well as the 1989 Kurt Maschler Award-winning The Park in the Dark and the Little Bear series, both illustrated by Barbara Firth. In 2004, Martin received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his lasting contribution to childrens literature, the highest career recognition available to a writer or illustrator of childrens books. He lives in Newcastle, County Durham.

Barbara Firth (1928-2013) was a Kate Greenaway Medal-winning illustrator who worked on numerous picture books by Martin Waddell including the Little Bear series and the 1989 Kurt Maschler Award-winning The Park in the Dark.