List of fictional bears
Literature
Table:
Character

Origin

Author

Notes

Aloysius

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear.

Baloo

The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

A sloth bear who is Mowgli's mentor and friend.

Bear

Franklin

Paulette Bourgeois

A brown bear who is Franklin's best friend.

Bear

The Honey and Bear Stories

Ursula Dubosarsky

Bear lives with the little bird Honey, a silvereye, native to Australia.

Bear

Bear

Marian Engel

The titular unnamed bear whose relationship with a librarian is the subject of the novel.

Bear Family

Berenstain Bears

Stan and Jan Berenstain

The Family consists of Father Bear, Mother Bear, Brother Bear, Sister Bear and eventually Honey Bear.

Ben

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

Charles Sellier

Big Double

Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear

Ken Kesey
Barry Moser

An obese grizzly bear, who is the main antagonist. He terrorizes the animals of Topple's Bottom just by eating them all up in one single solitary operation, until he gets outmatched by Little Tricker the Squirrel.[23]

Bluebear

The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

Walter Moers

A Chromabear living in Zamonia who has many adventures. He is intelligent and amiable.

Br'er Bear

"Uncle Remus" stories

Joel Chandler Harris

A slow witted bear working with Br'er Fox to capture and eat Br'er Rabbit.

Corduroy

Corduroy

Don Freeman

A teddy bear who hopes to be owned by a girl named Lisa.

Gentle Ben

Gentle Ben

Walt Morey

A grizzly bear in the book, though the TV series and movies make him a black bear.

Harvey

A Father's Day Thank You

Janet Nolan

A bear cub who gives a thankyou card to his dad.

Iorek Byrnison

His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

A male armored polar bear. An honorable friend to Lyra and the rightful king of Svalbard.

Issi Noho

Issi Noho

Keith Chatfield

Lars

The Little Polar Bear

Hans de Beer

Adapted into a TV Series for BBC in 1990s and four films by Warner Bros.

Little Bear

Little Bear

Else Holmelund Minarik

Illustrated by Maurice Sendak and adapted into a TV Series by Nelvana.

Mary Plain

Mary Plain

Gwynedd Rae

Misha

The Foundation Pit

Andrei Platonov

Mister Bultitude

That Hideous Strength

C. S. Lewis

The Great Bear of Logres, resident at St. Anne's.

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Aloysius ( /ˌæloʊˈɪʃəs/ AL-oh-ISH-əs ) is a given name . It is a Latinisation of the names Alois , Louis , Lewis , Luis , Luigi , Ludwig , and other cognate names ( traditionally in Medieval Latin as Ludovicus or Chlodovechus ) , ultimately from Frankish *Hlūdawīg , from Proto-Germanic *Hlūdawīgą ( famous battle ) . In the US , the name is rare , with babies receiving the name less than 0.001% since the 1940s and mainly among Roman Catholics , according to Social Security Administration data .
Brideshead Revisited , The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh , first published in 1945 . It follows , from the 1920s to the early 1940s , the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder , including his friendship with the Flytes , a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle . Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes : Sebastian and Julia . The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy , Catholicism , and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte 's coterie at Oxford University . A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981 .
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( /ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/ ; 28 October 1903 - 10 April 1966 ) was an English writer of novels , biographies , and travel books ; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer . His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall ( 1928 ) and A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , the novel Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) , and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour ( 1952-1961 ) . He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century . Waugh was the son of a publisher , educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College , Oxford . He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer . As a young man , he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society . He travelled extensively in the 1930s , often as a special newspaper correspondent ; he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion . He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War , first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards . He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people whom he encountered in his works of fiction , generally to humorous effect . Waugh 's detachment was such that he fictionalised his own mental breakdown which occurred in the early 1950s . Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930 after his first marriage failed . His traditionalist stance led him to strongly oppose all attempts to reform the Church , and the changes by the Second Vatican Council ( 1962-65 ) greatly disturbed his sensibilities , especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass .
A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear . Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century , and named after President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt , the teddy bear became an iconic children 's toy , celebrated in story , song , and film . Since the creation of the first teddy bears which sought to imitate the form of real bear cubs , teddies have greatly varied in form , style , color , and material . They have become collector 's items , with older and rarer teddies appearing at public auctions . Teddy bears are among the most popular gifts for children and are often given to adults to signify love , congratulations , or sympathy .
Baloo ( /bəˈluː/ , from Hindi : भालू bhālū bear ) is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book from 1894 and The Second Jungle Book from 1895 . Baloo , a sloth bear , is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack . His most challenging pupil is the man-cub Mowgli . Baloo and Bagheera , a panther , save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger , and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of The Jungle Book stories .
The Jungle Book ( 1894 ) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling . Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear , though a principal character is the boy or man-cub Mowgli , who is raised in the jungle by wolves . The stories are set in a forest in India ; one place mentioned repeatedly is Seonee ( Seoni ) , in the central state of Madhya Pradesh . A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering , as in the life of Mowgli , echoing Kipling 's own childhood . The theme is echoed in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies , as well as Mowgli 's . Another important theme is of law and freedom ; the stories are not about animal behaviour , still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival , but about human archetypes in animal form . They teach respect for authority , obedience , and knowing one 's place in society with the law of the jungle , but the stories also illustrate the freedom to move between different worlds , such as when Mowgli moves between the jungle and the village . Critics have also noted the essential wildness and lawless energies in the stories , reflecting the irresponsible side of human nature . The Jungle Book has remained popular , partly through its many adaptations for film and other media . Critics such as Swati Singh have noted that even critics wary of Kipling for his supposed imperialism have admired the power of his storytelling . The book has been influential in the scout movement , whose founder , Robert Baden-Powell , was a friend of Kipling 's . Percy Grainger composed his Jungle Book Cycle around quotations from the book .
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling . First published in 1895 , it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories , all but one set in India , most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont . All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5 , often under different titles . The 1994 film The Jungle Book used it as a source .
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( /ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd ; 30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 ) was an English journalist , short-story writer , poet , and novelist . He was born in India , which inspired much of his work . Kipling 's works of fiction include The Jungle Book ( 1894 ) , Kim ( 1901 ) , and many short stories , including The Man Who Would Be King ( 1888 ) . His poems include Mandalay ( 1890 ) , Gunga Din ( 1890 ) , The Gods of the Copybook Headings ( 1919 ) , The White Man 's Burden ( 1899 ) , and If - ( 1910 ) . He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story . His children 's books are classics ; one critic noted a versatile and luminous narrative gift . Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom 's most popular writers . Henry James said , Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius , as distinct from fine intelligence , that I have ever known . In 1907 , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature , as the first English-language writer to receive the prize , and at 41 , its youngest recipient to date . He was also sounded for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood , but declined both . Following his death in 1936 , his ashes were interred at Poets ' Corner , part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey . Kipling 's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age .
Franklin the Turtle is a Canadian children 's book franchise . All of the books in the original series were authored by Paulette Bourgeois and illustrated by Brenda Clark . The book series has been adapted twice into television series : the 1997 animated series Franklin and its 2011 CGI-animated series , Franklin and Friends . The first books in the Franklin and Friends series were adapted by Harry Endrulat , while later books were adapted by Caitlin Drake Smith . Actors like Noah Reid , Leah Renee , and Elizabeth Saunders played roles in the television show .
Paulette Bourgeois , CM ( born July 20 , 1951 ) is a Canadian writer best known for creating Franklin the Turtle , the character who appears in picture books illustrated by Toronto native Brenda Clark . The books have sold more than 60 million copies around the world and have been translated into 38 languages . An animated television series , merchandise , DVDs and full-feature movies are based on the character .
Ursula Dubosarsky ( born Ursula Coleman , Sydney , 1961 ) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults , whose work is characterised by a child 's vision and voice of both clarity and ambiguity . She has won nine national literary prizes , including five New South Wales Premier 's Literary Awards , more than any other writer in the Awards ' 30-year history . She was appointed the Australian Children 's Laureate for 2020-2021 . She is the author of illustrated books and novels , and also three works of non-fiction about the English language , grammar and etymology for children , featuring a character known as The Word Spy . These Word Spy books , illustrated by Tohby Riddle , have won the New South Wales Premier 's Literary Award , the Children 's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges ' Award and Book of the Year Award . In the United States and Canada The Word Spy is published under the title The Word Snoop . Her novel The Red Shoe is included in 1001 Children 's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up and is one of 200 significant works of Australian literature in the Copyright Agency 's Reading Australia program . Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - The Red Shoe , The Terrible Plop and Too Many Elephants In This House . In 2014 , the annual Christmas Windows of the department store David Jones were based on her story Reindeer 's Christmas Surprise . In 2018 the National Library of Australia published Midnight At the Library , illustrated by Ron Brooks , to help celebrate the Library 's 50-year anniversary . She is the third child of Peter Coleman and Verna Susannah Coleman . Her name was suggested by the character of Ursula Brangwen in the 1915 novel The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence .
The silvereye or wax-eye ( Zosterops lateralis ) is a very small omnivorous passerine bird of the south-west Pacific . In Australia and New Zealand its common name is sometimes white-eye , but this name is more commonly used to refer to all members of the genus Zosterops , or the entire family Zosteropidae . In New Zealand , the silvereye was first recorded in 1832 . It arrived in greater numbers in 1856 , and it is assumed that a migrating flock was swept eastwards by a storm . As an apparently self-introduced bird it is protected as a native New Zealand species . Its Māori name , tauhou , means stranger or more literally , new arrival .
Bear is a novel by Canadian author Marian Engel , published in 1976 . It won the Governor General 's Literary Award the same year . It is Engel 's fifth novel , and her most famous . The story tells of a lonely librarian in northern Ontario who enters into a sexual relationship with a bear . The book has been called the most controversial novel ever written in Canada .
Marian Ruth Engel , OC , ( née Passmore ; May 24 , 1933 - February 16 , 1985 ) was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers ' Union of Canada . Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear ( 1976 ) , a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear .
The Berenstain Bears is a children 's literature franchise created by Stan and Jan Berenstain and continued by their son , Mike Berenstain , who assumed partial authorship in 2002 , and full authorship in 2012 following Jan 's death . The books feature a family of anthropomorphic grizzly bears who generally learn a moral or safety-related lesson in the course of each story . Since the 1962 debut of the first Berenstain Bears book , The Big Honey Hunt , the series has grown to over 300 titles , which have sold approximately 260 million copies in 23 languages . The Berenstain Bears franchise has also expanded well beyond the books , encompassing two television series and a wide variety of other products and licenses . While enjoying decades of popularity and receiving numerous awards , the series has been criticized for its perceived saccharine tone and formulaic storytelling .
Stanley Melvin Berenstain ( September 29 , 1923 - November 26 , 2005 ) and Janice Marian Berenstain ( née Grant ; July 26 , 1923 - February 24 , 2012 ) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children 's book series The Berenstain Bears . Both Stan and Jan were born and raised in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Jan attended Radnor High School in Radnor , Pennsylvania . Stan was Jewish and Jan was Episcopalian . They were married for 59 years until Stan 's death in 2005 .
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams is a 1974 independent feature film inspired by a 1972 historical fiction novella written by Charles E. Sellier Jr . The film 's popularity led to an NBC television series of the same name . The title character , played by Dan Haggerty , was loosely based on California mountain man James Grizzly Adams ( 1812-1860 ) . The film and TV series portrayed the fictional Grizzly Adams as a frontier woodsman who fled into the mountains after he was wrongly accused of murder . While struggling to survive , Adams saves an orphaned grizzly bear cub he adopts and names Ben . The bear , while growing to its huge adult size , becomes Adams ' closest companion . Consistently kind and gentle , Adams discovers and demonstrates an uncanny ability to gain the trust of most of the indigenous wildlife of the region , and he helps , sometimes rescues , takes in and tames many species . Originally a hunter , with his learned affection for wildlife Adams resolves never to harm another animal whenever possible . In the television series , Adams had two human friends , an old mountain man trader named Mad Jack played by Denver Pyle who was often featured with his mule ( Number Seven ) , and a Native American by the name of Nakoma played by Don Shanks . Adams , Mad Jack , and Nakoma helped myriad mountain visitors while protecting wildlife at the same time . NBC aired the series finale on February 21 , 1982 by way of a two-hour TV movie called The Capture of Grizzly Adams where a bounty hunter used Adams ' daughter , who was not seen or mentioned since the 1974 film , in a kidnap-extortion ploy to lure the fugitive mountain man back to civilization . In the end Adams proves his innocence .
Charles Edward Sellier Jr. ( November 9 , 1943 - January 31 , 2011 ) was an American television producer , screenwriter , novelist and director , best known for creating the American book and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams . He was also known for directing the notorious Christmas themed slasher film Silent Night , Deadly Night He also wrote and produced more than thirty films and 230 television shows during his career , which spanned four decades .
Kenneth Elton Kesey ( /ˈkiːziː/ ; September 17 , 1935 - November 10 , 2001 ) was an American novelist , essayist , and countercultural figure . He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s . Kesey was born in La Junta , Colorado , and grew up in Springfield , Oregon , graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957 . He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest in 1960 following the completion of a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University ; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later . During this period , Kesey participated in government studies involving hallucinogenic drugs ( including mescaline and LSD ) to supplement his income . Following the publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest , he moved to nearby La Honda , California , and began hosting happenings with former colleagues from Stanford , miscellaneous bohemian and literary figures ( most notably Neal Cassady ) , and other friends collectively known as the Merry Pranksters ; these parties , known as Acid Tests , integrated the consumption of LSD with multimedia performances . He mentored the Grateful Dead ( the de facto house band of the Acid Tests ) throughout their incipience and continued to exert a profound influence upon the group throughout their long career . Sometimes a Great Notion - an epic account of the vicissitudes of an Oregon logging family that aspired to the modernist grandeur of William Faulkner 's Yoknapatawpha saga - was a commercial success that polarized critics and readers upon its release in 1964 , although Kesey regarded the novel as his magnum opus . In 1965 , following an arrest for marijuana possession and subsequent faked suicide , Kesey was imprisoned for five months . Shortly thereafter , he returned home to the Willamette Valley and settled in Pleasant Hill , Oregon , where he maintained a secluded , family-oriented lifestyle for the rest of his life . In addition to teaching at the University of Oregon - an experience that culminated in Caverns ( 1989 ) , a collaborative novel written by Kesey and his graduate workshop students under the pseudonym of O.U . Levon - he continued to regularly contribute fiction and reportage to such publications as Esquire , Rolling Stone , Oui , Running , and The Whole Earth Catalog ; various iterations of these pieces were collected in Kesey 's Garage Sale ( 1973 ) and Demon Box ( 1986 ) .
Barry Moser ( born 1940 ) is an artist , known as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature . He is also the owner , operator , and proprietor of Pennyroyal Press .
The 13​1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear is a 1999 fantasy novel by German writer and cartoonist Walter Moers which details the numerous lives of a human-sized bear with blue fur . The captain 's name is originally a pun in German , based upon the fact that the German words for bears ( Bären ) and berries ( Beeren ) sound very much alike , whereas Blaubeere ( lit . blueberry ) is actually the German word for bilberry ( a number of other German cartoonists have made similar puns relating to bear names in their stories , including Rötger Feldmann aka Brösel ) , that a typical sailorish sailor is called an ( old ) seabear , and that sailors are prejudiced to be quite often blue , i.e . drunk . The novel was originally written in German , an English translation was published in the United Kingdom in 2000 and in the United States in 2005 , an Italian translation in 2000 , a Chinese translation in 2002 , and a French translation in 2005 . The novel attained considerable popularity in Germany and the United Kingdom while experiencing relative obscurity in the United States .
Walter Moers ( born 24 May 1957 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German comic creator and author .
Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear ( also spelled Brer Fox and Brer Bear , /ˈbrɛər/ ) are fictional characters from the Uncle Remus folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris . In the animated sequences of the 1946 Walt Disney-produced film Song of the South like in the tales , Brer Fox is the stories ' antagonist , while Brer Bear is his dim-witted henchman . Brer Fox was voiced by actor James Baskett , who also portrayed the live-action character Uncle Remus , and Brer Bear was voiced by Nick Stewart . In later appearances of the characters , the two were voiced by Jess Harnell and James Avery . In contrast to the earlier illustrations of Frederick S. Church , A . B . Frost , and E. W. Kemble , the Disney animators depict the characters in a more slapstick , cartoony style . The cult film Coonskin , directed by Ralph Bakshi , focuses on a trio of characters inspired by the original folktales . Br'er Rabbit , Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox ( renamed Preacher Fox in the film ) all appear , and the elements of the stories are moved to a then-contemporary urban setting .
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of black American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881 . Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta , and he produced seven Uncle Remus books . He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States , and more specifically in the plantations . He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context . He wrote his stories in a dialect which represented the voice of the narrators and their subculture . For this choice of framing , his collection has encountered controversy .
Joel Chandler Harris ( December 9 , 1848 - July 3 , 1908 ) was an American journalist , fiction writer , and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories . Harris was born in Eatonton , Georgia , where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years . He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution . Harris led two professional lives : as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris , he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady ( 1880-1889 ) , stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era . As Joel Chandler Harris , fiction writer and folklorist , he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit ' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process .
Corduroy is a 1968 children 's book written and illustrated by Don Freeman , and published by Viking Press . Based on a 2007 online poll , the National Education Association named the book one of its Teachers ' Top 100 Books for Children . It was one of the Top 100 Picture Books of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal .
Don Freeman ( August 11 , 1908 - January 1 , 1978 ) was an American painter , printmaker , cartoonist , and an illustrator and writer of children 's books . He was active from the 1930s to the 1970s and often used Times Square as the backdrop of his memorable works .
Gentle Ben is a bear character created by author Walt Morey and first introduced in a 1965 children 's novel , Gentle Ben . The original novel told the story of the friendship between a large male bear named Ben and a boy named Mark . The story provided the basis for the 1967 film Gentle Giant ( 1967 ) , the popular late 1960s U.S. television series Gentle Ben , a 1980s animated cartoon and two early 2000s made-for-TV movies .
Walter Walt Morey ( February 3 , 1907 - January 12 , 1992 ) , was an author of numerous works of children 's fiction , set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska , the places where Morey lived for all of his life . His book Gentle Ben was the basis for the 1967 movie Gentle Giant and the 1967-1969 television show Gentle Ben . He wrote a total of 17 published books , most of which involve as a central plot element the relationship between man and animals . Many of his works involve survival stories , or people going into the wild to discover themselves ; redemption through nature is a common theme of Morey 's works .
A Father 's Day Thank You is a 2007 children 's picture book by Janet Nolan and illustrated by Kathi Ember . It is about Harvey , a bear cub , who , unlike his siblings , does not know what to give his dad for Father 's Day until receiving all sorts of help from him comes up with a card of appreciation .
This is a list of characters from the two Philip Pullman trilogies , His Dark Materials andThe Book of Dust .
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights ( 1995 ) ( published as The Golden Compass in North America ) , The Subtle Knife ( 1997 ) , and The Amber Spyglass ( 2000 ) . It follows the coming of age of two children , Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry , as they wander through a series of parallel universes . The novels have won a number of awards , including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass . In 2003 , the trilogy was ranked third on the BBCs The Big Read poll . Although His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction , Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind . The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears ; the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics , philosophy , and theology . It functions in part as a retelling and inversion of John Milton 's epic Paradise Lost , with Pullman commending humanity for what Milton saw as its most tragic failing , original sin . The series has attracted controversy for its criticism of religion . The London Royal National Theatre staged a two-part adaptation of the series in 2003-2004 . New Line Cinema released a film adaptation of Northern Lights , The Golden Compass , in 2007 . A BBC television series based on the novels commenced broadcast in November 2019 . Pullman followed the trilogy with two novellas set in the Northern Lights universe ; Lyra 's Oxford ( 2003 ) and Once Upon a Time in the North ( 2008 ) .
Sir Philip Pullman , CBE , FRSL ( born 19 October 1946 ) is an English novelist . He is the author of several best-selling books , including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus , The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ . In 2008 , The Times named Pullman one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 . In a 2004 poll for the BBC , Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture . He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature . Northern Lights , the first volume of Pullman 's His Dark Materials trilogy , won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising the year 's outstanding English-language children 's book . For the 70th anniversary of the medal it was named one of the top ten winning works by a panel assembled to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite . It won the public vote from that shortlist and was thus named the all-time Carnegie of Carnegies in June 2007 . It was adapted as a film under the book 's US title , The Golden Compass . In 2003 , His Dark Materials trilogy was ranked third in the BBC 's The Big Read , a poll of the Top 200 novels voted by the British public .
Issi Noho is the eponymous main character in a series of books and children 's television programmes created , written and narrated by author Keith Chatfield . Issi Noho was originally published by Heinemann and Piccolo , and 52 episodes of the television programme were produced for Thames Television between 1974 and 1978 .
The Little Polar Bear ( in Dutch : Lars de kleine ijsbeer ) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author , Hans de Beer . The first of several animated adaptations of the books is a Japanese original video animation , released on April 28 , 1990 , with animation production by I.G Tatsunoko ( now known as Production I.G ) . It later became an animated TV series for BBC TV , Lars , der kleine Eisbär , in the 1990s . The show proved to be popular in Germany , but its English-dubbed version ( titled The Little Polar Bear ) had also gained a cult following with UK viewers . The show was later revived between 2001 and 2003 . For its first film , subtitled Der Kinofilm , Warner Bros. and animation studio Rothkirch Cartoon Film bought the rights to adapt the children 's books into a feature-length film , released in 2001 . Following the success of the feature , several direct-to-video features were released , one of the new characters included was a tiger cub . In 2005 , another film , The Little Polar Bear 2 : The Mysterious Island ( German : Der kleine Eisbär 2 : Die geheimnisvolle Insel ) was released and also proved successful . The score to The Little Polar Bear ( 1 ) was composed by Nigel Clarke & Michael Csanyi-Wills and recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and was nominated for several awards .
Little Bear is a series of children 's books , primarily involving the interaction of Little Bear ( a small cub ) and Mother Bear ( his mother ) , written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak . Initially , the stories were simple , but eventually became more sophisticated in subsequent books as the plot and characters expanded . The first four Little Bear books consist of four stories , each of which involves Little Bear and a slowly expanding cast of support characters , each named after their respective species . The Little Bear character and his immediate family display many bear-like characteristics and mannerisms , but only on occasion . They live in a culture and technology which seems to be the woodland equivalent of a Little House on the Prairie setting , but with richer items . Little Bear is depicted as friendly and adventurous with his animal friends . This series of books went on to spawn a TV series , Little Bear , including specials and a feature length direct-to-video release , the movie entitled The Little Bear Movie . The series was produced by Nelvana and starred Kristin Fairlie as the voice of Little Bear . The five original Little Bear books were illustrated by Maurice Sendak . In 2010 , two years before her death , Minarik published a sixth book , Little Bear and the Marco Polo , which was illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday .
Else Holmelund Minarik ( September 13 , 1920 - July 12 , 2012 ) was an American author of more than 40 children 's books . She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children 's books , which were adapted for television . Minarik was also the author of another well-known book , No Fighting , No Biting !
Maurice Bernard Sendak ( /ˈsɛndæk/ ; June 10 , 1928 - May 8 , 2012 ) was an American illustrator and writer of children 's books . He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are , first published in 1963 . Born to Polish-Jewish parents , his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust . Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen , Outside Over There , and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik .
Nelvana Enterprises , Inc. ( previously known as Nelvana Ltd. ) is a Canadian animation studio and children 's media company owned by Corus Entertainment . Founded in 1971 , it was named by founders Michael Hirsh , Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s . The company 's production logo is a polar bear looking at the North Star . Most of its films , shows and specials are based on licensed properties , mainly children 's literature , but original programming is also part of its roster such as Corn & Peg . It ventured into the world of live action from its establishment and continues to do so . Nelvana also distributes internationally two Nickelodeon shows : Taina and the first five seasons of The Fairly OddParents . As of 2001 [ update ] , its library comprises more than 1,650 cumulative half-hours of original programming . The company has international offices in France , Ireland and Japan .
Mary Plain is a fictional bear character in British children 's literature who figures in a series of novels based on her adventures . The character was created by the Welsh author Gwynedd Rae and first appeared in the book Mostly Mary in 1930 . The last original book , Mary Plain 's Whodunnit , was published in 1965 . The books were reissued as paperbacks in the 1970s , and new editions of Mostly Mary and All Mary were published in the 1990s . In 2017 , further editions of four of the books were issued by Egmont .
Gwynedd Rae ( b 23 July 1892 Gipsy Hill , Norwood , Surrey - d 14 November 1977 Tott Close , Burwash , Sussex aged 85 ) , daughter of George Bentham Rae , stockbroker b Birkenhead 1846 and Mary Victoria Rae b San Francisco 1858 , was the author of children 's books about a bear called Mary Plain . Her stories were read on BBC Radio Children 's Hour in the 1930s and by Richard Briers on BBC TV 's Jackanory in 1969 .
The Foundation Pit ( Russian : Котлован , kotlovan ) is a gloomy symbolic and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov . The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers living in the early Soviet Union . They attempt to dig out a huge foundation pit on the base of which a gigantic house will be built for the country 's proletarians . The workers dig each day but slowly cease to understand the meaning of their work . The enormous foundation pit sucks out all of their physical and mental energy . In terms of creative works , Platonov depicted one of the first state-controlled dystopias of the 20th century . The novel is often compared to George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World . However , both English novels were published long before a translation of The Foundation Pit became available . [ citation needed ] Platonov 's work is a representation of the conflict that arose between Russian individuals and the increasingly collectivized Soviet state in the late 1920s . The Foundation Pit critiques Joseph Stalin 's domestic policies and questions the validity of any regime advocating the belief that the only existence a person can have is being one part of a whole . [ citation needed ] Finished in 1930 , the novel was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 due to censorship .
Andrei Platonov ( Russian : Андре́й Плато́нов , IPA : [ ɐnˈdrʲej pɫɐˈtonəf ] ; 28 August [ O.S . 16 August ] 1899 - 5 January 1951 ) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov ( Russian : Андре́й Плато́нович Климе́нтов ) , a Soviet Russian writer , philosopher , playwright , and poet , whose works anticipate existentialism . Although Platonov was a Communist , most of his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies , as well as for its experimental , avant-garde form . His famous works include the novels The Foundation Pit ( Котлован ) and Chevengur ( Чевенгур ) . New York Review Books Classics issued a collection of short stories , including his most famous story , The Potudan River , with an introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya , in 2000 . New York Review Books reissued a collection of Platonov 's work including the novella Soul ( Dzhan ) , the short story The Return , and six other stories in 2007 . This was followed by a reissue of The Foundation Pit in 2009 , and Happy Moscow , an unfinished novel that was left unpublished in Platonov 's lifetime , in 2012 .
That Hideous Strength ( subtitled A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups ) is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis , the final book in Lewis 's theological science fiction Space Trilogy . The events of this novel follow those of Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra ( also titled Voyage to Venus ) and once again feature the philologist Elwin Ransom . Yet unlike the principal events of those two novels , the story takes place on Earth rather than in space or on other planets in the solar system . The story involves an ostensibly scientific institute , the N.I.C.E. , which is a front for sinister supernatural forces . The novel was heavily influenced by the writing of Lewis 's friend and fellow Inkling Charles Williams , and is markedly dystopian in style . In the book 's preface Lewis acknowledges science-fiction writer Olaf Stapledon and his work : Mr. Stapledon is so rich in invention that he can well afford to lend , and I admire his invention ( though not his philosophy ) so much that I should feel no shame to borrow . In the foreword , Lewis states that the novel 's point is the same as that in his non-fiction work The Abolition of Man , which argues that there are natural laws and objective values , which education should teach children to recognise . The novel 's title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555 , Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour , also known as The Monarche . The couplet in question , The shadow of that hyddeous strength , sax myle and more it is of length , refers to the Tower of Babel .
Clive Staples Lewis ( 29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963 ) was a British writer and lay theologian . He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University ( Magdalen College , 1925-1954 ) and Cambridge University ( Magdalene College , 1954-1963 ) . He is best known for his works of fiction , especially The Screwtape Letters , The Chronicles of Narnia , and The Space Trilogy , and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics , such as Mere Christianity , Miracles , and The Problem of Pain . Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends . They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings . According to Lewis 's memoir Surprised by Joy , he was baptised in the Church of Ireland , but fell away from his faith during adolescence . Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32 , owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends , and he became an ordinary layman of the Church of England . Lewis 's faith profoundly affected his work , and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim . Lewis wrote more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies . The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage , TV , radio , and cinema . His philosophical writings are widely cited by Christian apologists from many denominations . In 1956 , Lewis married American writer Joy Davidman ; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45 .
Logres ( also Logris or Loegria ) is King Arthur 's realm in the Matter of Britain . It derives from the medieval Welsh word Lloegyr , a name of uncertain origin referring to England ( Lloegr in modern Welsh ) . In Arthurian contexts , Logres is often used to describe the Brittonic territory roughly corresponding to the borders of England before the area was taken by the Anglo-Saxons . According to Geoffrey of Monmouth 's influential pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae , the realm was named after the legendary king Locrinus , the oldest son of Brutus of Troy . In his Historia , Geoffrey uses the word Loegria to describe a province containing most of England excluding Cornwall and possibly Northumberland , as in this example from section iv.20 ( from the Puffin Classics translation by Lewis Thorpe ) :