The editor liked it but would consider accepting it only if the bears were replaced with children. With its short words, clear storylines and simple structure, the first Little Bear book, comprising four tales, was ideal.īolstered by its popularity with her pupils, and confident about its concept and execution, Minarik took the book to a publisher in New York. Minarik had realised that, for the holidays, the children needed something offering more life and emotion than the popular reading primers, with their predictable and colourless stories. It was more widely circulated when, as a junior school teacher in Long Island, New York, she made copies for her pupils. She married Walter Minarik and wrote and illustrated the first Little Bear story for their daughter, Brooke, to read before she went to school. "Little Bear is me in Denmark, where I was cuddled and loved," she said. When she came to write stories for very young children, she drew on her memories of her mother reading Hans Christian Andersen to her. She was born in Denmark and moved to the US with her parents at the age of four. Else Holmelund Minarik was urged to replace the bears with children
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