Is fall weather starting to get to you? Are the kids feeling the effects of too many windy, rainy days? How about snuggling up in a blanket cave with your cubs and hibernating for an afternoon of reading, sleeping and bonding? Here are a few books that will help to get you settled in and prepared for the coming winter…
Bear Dreams, by Elisha Cooper
A young bear cub decides he doesn’t want to sleep all winter, or even for a minute. He has big plans to play with his animal friends who do not have to hibernate, but imagining all of the things he will do makes the bear cub very sleepy.
A Den Is a Bed for a Bear: A Book about Hibernation, by Becky Baines
Brief text accompanies photographs, providing a simple and appealing explanation of the bear’s yearly cycle of preparing for hibernation and the birth of cubs.
Don’t Wake Up the Bear! , by Marjorie Dennis Murray
Bear is fast asleep for the winter in his warm and cozy den. When other forest animals discover that they can get out of the cold and snuggle with bear, the cave begins to get a bit crowded and bear begins to wake up!
Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep, by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple
Sing hibernating animals to sleep with a winter lullaby. Charming illustrations depict different animals that hibernate, including snakes, badgers, turtles, bats, and skunks.
Time to Sleep, by Denise Fleming
Bear sniffs a winter chill in the air, so she tells her friend snail, and snail tells skunk, and so on, until ladybug decides she must wake bear to give her the news that it is time to sleep.
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