On the face of it, “Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing” depicts an ursine father and son enjoying an excursion together. But it’s also a master class in parenting, with a father figure so ...

In 2014, quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was taken with the No. 32 pick in the NFL draft by the Vikings. In a children’s book, “Little Bear Teddy” gets selected “with the seventh growl of ...

Artists chosen by Sendak illustrate the books. In Little Bear's New Friend, illus. by Heather Green, the fellow befriends a wild cub while camping on Pudding Hill.

The book ends with Sister Bear starting a No Boys Allowed club in retaliation against Brother’s No Girls Allowed club, only to be convinced by Mama that exclusion isn’t fun for anyone.

“Wyoming is bear country,” Tom Reed writes in Great Wyoming Bear Stories, a book of yarns from the wild high county in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks — land he calls ...