The Autumn Visitors
FROM SARAH:
I really love this whole, mostly wordless series by Karel Hayes! They can be a little harder to find in library systems, but they are worth owning for your own home collection. Seasonal and family-focused and just all-around delightful.
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The Christmas Visitors
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
It’s Christmas at the cottage by the lake and the bears are busy preparing to celebrate. The human owners of the cottage, however, are in the city feeling glum. Until the idea comes to them to spend the holidays at their cottage.
What follows is a set of misadventures as the family arrives without presents—they were left on the train—and without the usual holiday accouterments—the Christmas trees and turkeys are all sold out. But they are in for a treat as the cottage has been decorated by their unseen friends. So the bears unwittingly save Christmas for their human hosts, yet are still able to enjoy their own fine celebration. And, as with the other books, the bears do so all while cleverly avoiding confrontation with their human friends.
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The Winter Visitors
FROM SARAH:
A beautiful, nearly wordless book that follows a family of bears through the coldest season of the year. Highly recommended.
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
This charming and highly original story reveals what happens at a vacation cottage once the summer visitors have left for the winter. With fewer than two dozen words, the story is told primarily in pictures. Children and adults will revel in the activities of a family of bears that takes up residence in the empty camp.
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