cover image Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?: Special Anniversary Printing

Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?: Special Anniversary Printing

Martin Waddell. Candlewick Press (MA), $15.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1929-9

Break out the candles and cake: this season, old favorites mark special occasions in an array of anniversary editions. A gold-embossed cover and a limited-edition print suitable for framing embellish the 10th-anniversary edition of Can't You Sleep Little Bear? by Martin Waddell, illus. by Barbara Firth. PW wrote of this tale of Big Bear and exuberant toddler Little Bear settling down on a wintry night, ""Move over, Goodnight Moon. Margaret Wise Brown's enduring bedtime classic may have found a worthy successor."" (Oct.)