Bear's friends awaken him the day before Christmas and help him to stay awake as they bake fruitcakes, fill stockings, and sing carols; then, while they sleep, he prepares his own surprise.

A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station becomes one of the family.

Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.

Papa Bear searches for the "very best place in the world" to have a picnic. He finally finds the perfect spot.

Three young bears of different species--one black, one polar, and one grizzly--travel on a perilous quest to the Northern Lights, escorting a shape-shifting grizzly cub whose destiny will affect them all.

The four bears finally arrive at the legendary Last Great Wilderness, thinking it is the end of their long journey, but they discover that their true mission has really just begun.

Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe Jesse Bear's activities from morning to bedtime.

The Peruvian bear decorates, turns detective, and helps with Christmas shopping, along with other disasters.

"When a lonely little boy receives an invitation to play written on a paper boat, he is sure that he has finally found the friend he's been longing for, but Bear isn't quite the playmate the boy had imagined."--Provided by publisher.