âRich! Bear!â – The Great Bear, The Great Land, The Great North Woods
One of the earliest memories I have is of my mother reading to me from a Little Golden Book designed to teach preschoolers the alphabet by way of the Noah’s Ark story. On page one Noah gathered two apes—or aardvarks maybe, something starting with the letter A. I don’t remember. On the last page two zebras climbed up the gangplank to the big boat under Noah’s benevolent, animal-loving gaze just …
