![]() Who can forget Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Mama Bear, Papa Bear and Baby Bear. Here are some of the all-time favourite bears from children’s literature: So much so that even now, bear stories and characters continue to be among the all-time favourite bedtime stories of children around the world. They were all beloved characters.Ĭhildren’s fiction (Kidlit) has been replete with fantastic stories of bears, who transcend their animal status and become actual ‘persons’ who the children can easily relate to.Įach new generation has grown up on a steady diet of bear tales and handed down the ‘bear’ legacy to their children, and they to their children. Some where real animals - Civilized Bears - some were living teddy bears. On the whole, bears didn’t arrive in animal fiction until the 20th Century. At the same time, Kipling gave the world his talking animal character, Baloo… While Sir Charles G D Roberts, who created the Realistic Animal Story, wrote about wild animals of the Canadian Northwoods in the late 19th Century, his bears were true-to-the-wild depictions. And Aesop used bears in his fables.īut, unlike other animals - dogs, horses, cats, foxes - bears as central fictional characters arrived later on the literary scene. Bears featured as central characters in Celtic and Northern European tales for thousands of years (they also featured in Native American tales).Įuropean folk tales reformatted those old tales for more recent audiences. ![]()
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