Else Holmelund Minarik

After Little Bear meets a bear cub living alone by a stream, he and his friends help the cub find his missing parents.

Little Bear looks forward to giving his mother a valentine and to figuring out who the secret admirer is who sent him one.

Little Bear's thank-you kiss from grandmother gets passed on to him by many animals and greatly aids the skunks' romance.

Sometimes Rosa and Willy behave like the two little alligators in the stories Cousin Joan tells them.

Describes the adventures of Little Bear in which he goes fishing, has the hiccups, looks for a mermaid, and welcomes Father Bear home from the sea.