Reading order
Little Bear reading order
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- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 1957–1968
- Published
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Children’s books
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
4 volumes1957–1968Completed
- Else Holmelund Minarik’s gentle early readers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, about Little Bear and his family and friends: a bowl of birthday soup, a trip to the moon in a cardboard helmet, a visit to Grandmother and Grandfather.
- Among the first I Can Read books, with short, warm chapters and quiet humour that young readers can manage alone.
- Little Bear, the first, is the one with enough ratings, and it rates highly.
- Any order works.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 222 pages, about 4 hours. At 45 min a day that is 5 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 3, 2026.
- Stage 14 h5 daysby November 3, 2026
- 1. Little Bear
- 3. Little Bear's Friend
- 4. Little Bear's Visit
- 5. A Kiss for Little Bear
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Little Bear book is the longest?
“Little Bear's Visit” is the longest at 64 pages; the shortest is “A Kiss for Little Bear” with 32 pages.