The Bears Who Stayed Indoors

It's a grey Easter Monday and grandma is reading to little a: The Bears Who Stayed Indoors. What could be more appropriate?

Perhaps we should make a spaceship and fly to the moon.

I love The Bears. The storybooks don't seem to be in print any more, but the illustrations are fantastic - bright primary colours, full of character and charm - and the stories seem very Amistead Maupin somehow: 5 boy bears: Charles, John, Andrew, William, Robert and their dalmation Fred all live together and go on adventures. We also have The Bears Who Went to the Seaside.

Charles would always rather read than join in. William is always hungry. Fred is often forgotten.

little a is the only one who can tell the bears apart.

You can still seem to find boardbooks, which give you the joy of the pictures, if not the full Bears Who ... experience