Sandra Nickel
Description
Friendship comes in all sizes.
Bear loves being big! At the carnival, Bear wants to win a teddy bear as big as she is. Instead, she gets a fish. A v
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ery little fish. Bear is so very big and Fish is so very small that Bear worries they have nothing in common.
But although Fish might look small, she proves to be bigger than Bear ever thought she could be. And Bear learns that sometimes even a big bear can be small in the big, wide world. With the help of Fish, Bear learns that even though she and Fish are different, they are also a little the same.
Gentle, accessible prose by Sandra Nickel is paired with richly textured illustrations by Il Sung Na in this sweet story about accepting others for who they are.
Big Bear and Little Fish was named a Charlotte Huck Award Recommended Book by the National Council of Teachers of English. The Charlotte Huck Award recognizes fiction that has the "potential to transform children''s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder."
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