Father Bear Comes Home

Little Bearâe(tm)s father is finally coming home from a long fishing trip. Little Bear is very excited to see him âe" even if he doesnâe(tm)t bring the mermaid Little Bear has been hoping for!

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "A hilarious, richly imagined bear's eye view of love, music, alienation, manhood and humanity…that recalls Pynchon at his most controlled." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The hero of this sensational debut novel is an alto-sax virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Coltrane and Rollins. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Blake- and Shakespeare-quoting bear whose musical, spiritual, and romantic adventures add up to perhaps the best novel, ursine or human, ever written about jazz.

A collection of three Little Bear books.

A collection of three Little Bear books.

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.

One summer Little Bear makes friends with a girl named Emily. But when summer ends, Emily must leave. Little Bear is very sad-until he finds a way to stay close to his new friend even when she is far away!

It's Father's Day and Little Bear wants to have a special day with Father Bear. Everything is perfect when they set off on a fishing trip, until all of Father Bear's friends tag along. Little Bear wanted to have Father Bear all to himself. What shall he do?