Mommy and Daddy Bear convince three worried cubs that there's plenty of love to go around in this comforting tale from the incomparable team of Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram.Every night, while tucking in their three cubs, Mommy and Daddy Bear tell them they're the most wonderful baby bears in the whole wide world. But one day the three little bears start to wonder: How do Mommy and Daddy know this is true? And even more worrisome to each sibling: What if my parents like my brother or sister better than me? From the team who brought us the beloved Big and Little Nutbrown Hare comes a tale that answers a timeless question with the ultimate reassurance — and offers the perfect way for parents to remind their own little cubs how very much each one is loved.
Sam McBratney (1943−2020) is the author of the internationally best-selling classic
Guess How Much I Love You and its sequel,
Will You Be My Friend?, as well as
All My Favorites, all illustrated by Anita Jeram. He also wrote
Just You and Me and
There, There,
both illustrated by Ivan Bates, and
Mindi and the Goose No One Else Could See,
illustrated by Linda Ólafsdóttir,
among many other books for children.
Anita Jeram is the award-winning author-illustrator of
I Love My Little Storybook. She also illustrated
Kiss Good Night and other books by Amy Hest,
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, and many other picture books. Recently, her son asked her which one of the children in their family was the best — himself, his brother, or his sister. She explained they were all equal in her eyes, and he came back with another question: "Okay, then, who's the cleanest?" Anita Jeram says, "There's always one in every family." She lives in Northern Ireland.
For any family with more than one child, this could quickly become a beloved bedtime story.
—Chicago Tribune
McBratney and Jeram again combine to address a common childhood anxiety in a relaxed, irresistibly soothing way.
—Kirkus Reviews