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Children's animated television series

Little Bear, also known as Maurice Sendak's Little Bear, is a Canadian children's animated television series co-produced by Nelvana Limited, produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is based on the children's book series of the same name written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. In the United States, the series premiered on Nickelodeon as part of the Nick Jr. block on November 6, 1995, until the final episode aired on June 1, 2001. The series also aired on CBS on Saturday mornings from September 16, 2000, until September 15, 2001.

Every twenty-two minute long episode of the series is divided into three seven-minute segments. Most segments are new stories, but some are retellings of Else Holmelund Minarik's books (both she and Sendak were "closely involved in the creative process" when developing the new stories).

A direct-to-videofeature film titled The Little Bear Movie was released in 2001.

Premise

Little Bear follows the titular character as he goes on exciting adventures in the forest and learns new things with his friends, including Duck, Hen, Cat, Owl and Emily. His parents are Mother Bear, who is always there when he needs her, and Father Bear, a fisherman who is often at sea.

Episodes

Main article: List of Little Bear episodes

Characters

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The late illustrator Maurice Sendak would have turned 92 today, and I imagine he’d have had the same contagious attraction to childhood wonder that made him such a compelling storyteller.

Well before his success with projects like Where the Wild Things Are, the Little Bear books (let’s not sleep on how good that TV show was), Outside Over There, and other works, Sendak had other aspirations: for a time, he and his older brother, Jack, were serious about becoming artisanal toy-makers.

There’s nothing like prolonged childhood bed rest to get a kid to fixate on something, and that’s what happened in Sendak’s case. In a 1966 New Yorker feature, Sendak told the author about the first books he’d ever received, from his sister: The Prince and the Pauper and The Three Musketeers. So much did Sendak love the books as objects in their own that he refrained from actually reading them for a while.

“It felt so good just having them,” he said. “They seemed alive to me, and so did many other inanimate objects I was fond of. All children have these intense feelings about certain dolls or other toys.”

At the time, many of Sendak’s own childhood toys were still at his parents’ house, and whenever he visited them, he also “visited” his toys (I hope that was code for sat open-legged on the carpet and talked to chunks of wood). Sendak was exploring the very Sendakian themes of loneliness and attachment in his early work Kenny’s Window (1956), whose protagonists occasionally chats with some of his favorite toys, including a stuffed bear and a lead soldier.

Once he graduated from high school in 1946, Sendak worked at a window-display house in lower Manhattan, helping create store window models of figures like Snow White and the dwarves using chicken wire, papier-mâché, plaster, and paint. He left after a couple of years and started working with Jack, one of his favori