A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.

After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare.

Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.

Papa Bear thinks that Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all, but his overreaction to the cubs' report of seeing Bigpaw in the woods teaches him an important lesson about the meaning of the day.

Virgil the penguin finds a polar bear and tries to claim it as his own, but the polar bear wants to splash with the terns, slide with the seals, twirl with all the penguins, and be called by his name--Owen.

Mouse and Mole feel afraid one dark night crossing a mush-mucky swamp and a marsh-misty wood.

When Sam has a cough, Mrs. Bear tends to him all through the cold night.

Recounts the experiences of a shaggy, "boulder-big" bear during each of the four seasons in the woods where he lives. On board pages. Recounts the experiences of a shaggy, "boulder-big" bear during each of the four seasons in the woods where he lives.

The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room.

Brother and Sister Bear are such good baseball players that Papa Bear decides they should try out for the Bear Country Cub League.