A Breakfast for Little Bear, Pages 9-12
The campers meet fearsome Little Bear
Welcome back to The Little Island🏝️, a clod of dirt in an imaginary ocean where I go to write songs, draw, and dream up wacky tales for my kids’ bedtime stories. In this edition, I continue my illustrated children’s story about Little Bear, which I am publishing first here on Substack in installments. Need to catch up? Previous installments are linked below:
Pages 9 & 10
Story Text
Here’s the thing: You know that Little Bear was coming for the campers’ corn chips and crackers. But the campers munching on them did not know this.
They looked out the van’s back window and saw — in the moment — a fierce, gigantic bear who wanted to eat them all up, hair scrunchies and stinky socks included.
The closer Little Bear got, the bigger he looked to their still-sleepy eyes.
And so, before he could even rise up and put his front paws on the rear bumper, the campers decided to start the van’s engine and flee, leaving their tent and equipment behind.
Pages 11 & 12
Story Text
Eventually the campers rolled up their van’s windows, too. But not before the smells of the snacks they carried spread throughout the campground and the surrounding forest.
Little Bear’s big nose told him he should follow the smell, and so he did, as fast as his four little legs could take him.
Unfortunately, little bears just aren’t able to keep up with big cars and trucks.
It was a hard lesson for Little Bear to learn that day. By the time he did, he found himself far, far away from the campsite. And now he was even more hungry than before.
Wonderful, and charming as ever.