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A little girl blames her contrary behavior on her best friend, Bear  . They're performances that involve a child-something both of you do. And once I started thinking of them that way, I started getting much looser about making up words and playing around with rhythm.

Phyllis Root is the author of fifty books for children, including . More Books by Phyllis : Anywhere Farm. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas Candlewick Press 2017. Illustrated by Laura Cornell HarperCollins 1996.

Phyllis Root is the author of fifty books for children, including Big Momma Makes the World, which won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble which won a Minnesota Book Award, Plant a Pocket of Prairie which won a John Burroughs Riverby Award.

Contrary Bear, illustrated by Laura Cornell, HarperCollins/Laura Geringer Books (New York, NY), 1996

Contrary Bear, illustrated by Laura Cornell, HarperCollins/Laura Geringer Books (New York, NY), 1996. One Windy Wednesday, illustrated by Helen Craig, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1996. Rosie's Fiddle, illustrated by Kevin O'Malley, Lothrop (New York, NY), 1997. Popular with young readers, Phyllis Root is perhaps best known for creating picture books that range from retellings of Native-American stories and tall tales to celebrations of intergenerational relationships and the small, intimate moments of childhood. As Kelly Milner Halls noted in Booklist, Root "has carved a niche for herself by using homespun observations and the playful use of rural undertones.

by Phyllis Root & illustrated by Laura Cornell . A small girl narrates this book; her best friend is Bear, called Contrary Bear by her father for always doing the opposite of what he instructs. Cornell illustrates with reliably zany cartoons; the bear is fully complicit in (and occasionally prime mover to) all the antics, with a fierce march and a sense of humor-in fact, he's crazy. His facial expressions in particular are hilarious and the little girl who loves him is a charmer. Pub Date: May 31st, 1996.

A little girl blames her contrary behavior on her best friend, Bear. It's Bear who throws sand in the playground

A little girl blames her contrary behavior on her best friend, Bear. A little girl blames her contrary behavior on her best friend, Bear. It's Bear who doesn't want to put his shoes on to go outside. It's Bear who throws sand in the backyard. And it's Bear who won't be quiet during naptime. But after an entire day of naughtiness, the child realizes Bear has gone a bit too far.

Created in 1981 . by the . greeting card company American Greetings, the Care Bears are a group of characters that have appeared in various media. Since early 1983, various companies in the Americas, Europe and Israel have published books based on the franchise.