Beady Bear: With the Never-Before-Seen Story Beady's Pillow

by Don Freeman

Overview

Upon its 1954 debut, the cuddly classic Beady Bear was praised by The New York Times as "the kind of book small children will delight in." Don Freeman, author of the acclaimed children's story Corduroy, recounts the whimsically illustrated tale of a wind-up toy who longs to live like a real bear. When Beady learns that bears are brave and live in caves, he resolves to give it a try ― and discovers that being real is actually about loving and being loved.
This longtime favorite is presented for the first time with its previously unpublished sequel, Beady's Pillow, another heartwarming charmer only recently discovered by the author's son. Beady's friend Thayer sets out to retrieve a pillow that the adventurous bear has lost, and when Thayer disappears into a cave and doesn't come out, Beady has a chance to prove his bravery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486797137
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	09/16/2015
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

About the Author

Don Freeman is known to many as the author of Corduroy and other children's books. He is also famed as a graphic artist who vividly portrayed the street life and theater world of New York City in the 1930s and '40s. He studied etching with John Sloan and frequently portrayed subjects from Broadway theater, politics, and the circus.

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Beady Bear

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By Don Freeman

Dover Publications, Inc.

Copyright © 2012 Roy Freeman
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-79713-7

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CHAPTER 1

Beady was a fuzzy toy bear who belonged to a boy named Thayer.

Hide-and-seek was their favorite fun.

From time to time Beady would suddenly stop and topple over kerplop! He'd come unwound!

Then Thayer would always go find him and take his key and gently wind him.

Once Beady was all wound up, he wanted to keep on playing.

And yet when Thayer went to bed Beady knew he ought to, too.

One winter's day Thayer went away. Just when he'd be back he didn't say.

Being all alone for the first time, Beady amused himself by looking at a book.

"Why hasn't anybody told me this before?" said Beady sadly to himself.

"I wonder if there could be a cave for me away up in those hills?"

Taking a long look through Thayer's shiny telescope he searched the side of the hill until — he spied

a cave!

So he left a note.

Up the hill he climbed and climbed.

At last!

(Continues...)

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