Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, NY 10003. Eventually, both agree that they'll travel to a town that lies 30 miles away, a place named Fitchburg. Each expects to get there first. This is a story at many levels.
Trains can surely go faster than a person who walks.
With every swoosh of the page, the young reader can sequentially compare and contrast what each of the two bears is doing. I stopped for blackberries. Parents and teachers are thus primed and free to layer-on additional meanings in its later readings. We also like the fact that the walking bear's mileage is included quite unobtrusively throughout the book, so that this becomes a little mathematics exercise for children too. While some might say this book teaches children NOT to respect honest employment, we disagree.