Barbara Firth's illustrations, of course, are stunning and pitched just right for such a soothing tale. The bit about them going out of the cave into the big dark unknown and the little bear being scared resonated with us as we were terrified about taking our baby out into the unknown. The words may seem repetitive, but it's just the perfect rhythm to draw a little one into a sweet slumber. Le pagine sono belle e resistenti, anche quelle popup, che in alcuni altri libri invece sembrano essere fragili.

However, even if you havent had a horrendous and dramatic birth experience it’s still a very sweet and funny book and I highly recommend it as a bedtime story. I also used this book to introduce the children to questions and how we know what they are and when someone is asking a question. The story is predictable but very comforting and the illustrations are cozy, expressive, and interesting.I remember very well myself that I could never sleep when I was a child, not because of the dark but I just could not fall asleep.

Described as 'the most perfect children's book ever written', this is a beautiful 25th anniversary edition of the Kate Greenaway-winning story of Little Bear, who just can't sleep. He's frightened of the dark, the dark all around, which not even Big Bear's largest lantern can light up. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The book also contains a lot of inverted commas so it could be used as an example for teaching those in grammar. The illustrations are darling and I loved how, in the end, Big Bear wanted Little Bear to confront his fear of the dark, but did so in a very gentle and reassuring way helping him to always see the lights that appear in the darkness.It's a good story that used a lot of repetition throughout with 'Little Bear', 'Big Bear', conversation about the darkness and sleeping. The children will easily be able to understand the plot of the story and will look forward to finding out Big Bear's solution to curing the darkness so that Little Bear can finally go to sleep in one peace!