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Summary
Summary
A girl leaves Small Bear, her teddy bear, on the train, but he manages to find his way home after a number of adventures.
Author Notes
Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company.
Waddell is now one of the most prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton.
He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreSWhen a little girl accidentally leaves her beloved stuffed bear on a train, he valiantly attempts to make his way home by bus, on foot, and at last by balloons. Waddell's straightforward text is boxed and set in large type on most left-hand pages. The placement of the text allows Austin's expressive pencil-and-watercolor illustrations to charge the simple, linear story with some preschool-sized drama. The soft, pastel colors of the main character and the surrounding countryside are just right for the old-fashioned setting of this gentle tale. Young listeners not quite ready for Corduroy's protracted peril or the wordplay of Jez Alborough's Where's My Teddy (Candlewick, 1992) will relish Small Bear's satisfying journey home.Ellen M. Riordan, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Inadvertently left behind on the train, a stuffed animal named Small Bear wends his way homeward with plucky determination. The book's overall handsome design, well-paced text, and comforting pencil and watercolor illustrations are diminished by the slightly contrived story line and humdrum characterization. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Ages 3^-5. The little stuffed animal featured in Waddell and Austin's Sailor Bear (1992) is off on a new adventure. Awakening to find himself alone on the seat of a train, Small Bear gets off at the next station, determined to find his way home. He resourcefully takes a bus to the park across from his house, but since he's too small to cross the street alone, he must wait patiently for hours until his little girl finds him. Small children will find much to like in Small Bear's travels: his plucky response to trouble, his playful sense of adventure, and his confident expectation of a happy ending. Austin's charming pencil and watercolor illustrations have an old-fashioned air and plenty of child appeal. A simple, satisfying story for preschoolers. --Carolyn Phelan