Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? (Book and Play Set)

Martin Waddell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0744537983 ISBN 13: 9780744537987

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 1995

A 3-D panorama with press-out bears and a miniature book of the classic Smarties Book Prize Winner, "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?", the story of Little Bear who's scared of the dark and Big Bear who looks after him. In this pack there is a 3-D panorama of the bear cave and an outdoor moonlit scene, plus five Little Bear and Big Bear press-out figures to play with and a miniature paperback edition of the book itself. Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth have collaborated on five children's books: "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" (winner of the Smarties Book Prize and the Kate Greenaway Medal, "Let's Go Home, Little Bear", "The Park in the Dark" (winner of the Kurt Maschler Award), "We Love Them" and "Sam Vole and his Brothers". Martin Waddell, who also writes under the pseudonym Catherine Sefton, has won a Smarties Book Prize for "Farmer Duck", and the Best Book for Babies Award for "Rosie's Babies". Barbara Firth's other titles include "A Song for Little Toad", "Wag Wag Wag" and "Bears in the Forest".

Review:

Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Prize for Children's Books, this luscious-as-chocolate tale of the little bear who just can't go to sleep should find a place on every pre-school bookshelf.

While Big Bear tries to read his Bear Book, Little Bear tries to sleep, but can't. He's scared of the dark. So Big Bear keeps bringing him progressively bigger lanterns. But nothing seems to work, until he leads Little Bear out of the Bear Cave into the dark nights

NB. There is some debate as to whether Little Bear was really trying very hard to get to sleep. Some of the illustrations seem to show him bouncing around rather a lot. You decide. (Ages 2 to 5)--Lisa Gee

A big book edition is also available.

Review:

"The most perfect children's book ever written or illustrated... It evaporates and dispels all fear of the dark." The Sunday Times"