Bear's Big Sleep: A Thanksgivingish Tale

Little Stories for Tiny People: Anytime and bedtime stories for kids

Rhea Pechter

Books, Kids & Family, Arts, Stories For Kids

4.5 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Bear's Big Sleep: A Thanksgivingish Tale is an original rhyming children's story about an anxious bear readying himself for winter hibernation and his loving friends who join forces to help him when he needs it most. Story themes include friendship, life changes, accepting help, and sharing. You can find both of my picture books, Little Fox Can't Wait to Dream and Little Hedgehog Goes to School, by visiting https://www.littlestoriestinypeople.com/books

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0:00.0	This is Rhea. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.
0:14.3	So something funny happened right before I started recording.
0:20.2	My guest today was supposed to be Sebastian the Bear. He's this sweet little Eastern black
0:27.7	bear who lives up in Maine. His uncle is some kind of big shot and has a helicopter.
0:34.4	So he flew down this morning and met me at my studio.
0:39.2	Our story today is about a bear getting ready for hibernation. So I was hoping Sebastian
0:45.0	could tell us how he gets ready to hibernate. But he fell asleep. He is currently sleeping
0:53.8	on the floor of my studio. Let me try one more time to wake him up. Can you guys just
1:00.0	help me? We're gonna whisper his name.
1:02.7	Sebastian. Sebastian. Wake up. Guys are you saying it too? Come on. One more time.
1:12.7	Sebastian.
1:14.8	Ugh. Guys, he is down for the count. I don't think he's gonna wake up. I should have
1:21.8	recorded this in September because at this point I think he just started his winter
1:28.2	hibernation in my studio. Okay. Let me just glance at the Wikipedia page for black bears
1:35.7	to get some background for you. Whoa. Okay. Apparently black bears hibernate for between
1:44.3	three and eight months out of the year. To prepare for that they have to eat a lot of food
1:51.5	and put on a lot of weight because during their hibernation they don't eat at all. Pretty
1:58.7	cool, huh? Well, our story today is called Bear's Big Sleep. Remember, there are no pictures.
2:11.5	You have to imagine the pictures in your mind. You can imagine them however you want. Okay.
2:21.2	Here we go.
2:30.4	It was November. Tiny crisp canoes sailed from branches to the ground, tracing pure wets,
2:40.2	whirling round, red, orange, yellow leaves falling down, hitting the forest floor without a sound.
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