![]() ![]() Minarik’s first husband, Walter Minarik, died in the 1960s her second, Homer Bigart, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune who was later a reporter for The New York Times, died in 1991. ![]() Sendak “The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy” (1963), illustrated by Garth Williams and “Percy and the Five Houses” (1989), illustrated by James Stevenson. ![]() Minarik’s other picture books include “ No Fighting, No Biting!” (1958), illustrated by Mr. The distinguished children’s-book editor Ursula Nordstrom, whose stable included luminaries like Margaret Wise Brown and E. In just 250 words, the text delineates Little Bear and his adoring mother richly but with the exquisite simplicity of a haiku poem: “Little Bear” conjures a child’s world in ursine form - a world, quite literally, of creature comforts. Aimed at beginning readers, the series, now comprising hundreds of books by an array of authors, was originally published by Harper & Bros., a predecessor of HarperCollins. Minarik (pronounced MIN-uh-rick), “ Little Bear” appeared in 1957 as the inaugural title in the I Can Read! series. The death was announced HarperCollins Publishers, her longtime publishing house. ![]() Else Holmelund Minarik, a writer for children whose Little Bear picture-book series - which simply, gently and evocatively tells the story of an anthropomorphized cub’s forays into the wider world - has been a mainstay of childhood for more than half a century, died on Thursday at her home in Sunset Beach, N.C. ![]()
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