This is Rhea. Welcome to Little Stories for Tiny People.

You guys, do you remember my friend Sebastian the Bear from Bear's Big Sleep? You know,

the sweet little black bear who fell asleep and not just any old sleep, but hibernation

sleep in my studio? Well, I haven't mentioned Sebastian in months because, well, he's been

hibernating all this time. I actually forgot he was here. He somehow ended up covered

in a blanket, then a jacket or two. I started leaving my purse on his back. My cat started

napping on him. Basically, he became an extra piece of furniture until yesterday. I was

in the middle of finishing up this story. And my piece of furniture started wobbling.

Then everything that I'd piled on top of it, the cats, the purse, the jackets, the blanket,

a few stray coffee mugs, slid right off as my piece of furniture stood up and revealed

itself to me, Sebastian. He was utterly confused and understandably starving. I don't

keep your typical bare food stocked in my pantry, but he was up for eating everything

in sight. Tiny people, I am so exhausted. I was up all night last night shoving piles

of food in front of Sebastian. So if I sound a little... Oh, tired. I do apologize. Sebastian,

I do not know. He's so busy eating, he's not even looking up. Well, totally coincidentally,

our story today is a follow-up to Bear's Big Sleep. It's called Bear Wakes Up. I know.

Very inventive. So let's check out our story. Remember, there are no pictures, so you'll

have to imagine the pictures in your mind. You can imagine it however you want. Okay, here

we go. It was April. Warm breeze filtered through a patch of trees. Bear twitched in his

sleep. Outside his den, a hatchling bird began to peep. A stream of spring sunshine fell

on Bear's closed eyes and right on his nose landed a butterfly. Grrf! Bear grunted and

swatted it away. Go away now. The butterfly fluttered up and perched on Bear's brow.

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