The Biggest Light of All
The Biggest Light of All Cherith Lehman, with thanks to Martin Waddell for the italics “Once there were two bears, Big Bear and Little Bear. Big Bear is the big bear, and Little Bear is the little bear.” It's my favorite bedtime book. With the dark blue cover and the big yellow moon spilling it's cool-warm light over Big Bear holding Little Bear out of the snow. I am always Little Bear and Big Bear is Mom and Dad combined. Combined, because sometimes Dad reads it and sometimes Mom reads it and there's only one Big Bear. When it got dark, Big Bear took Little Bear to the Bear Cave and put him to bed in the dark part of the cave. But Little Bear couldn't get to sleep. “Can't you sleep, Little Bear?” asked Big Bear, putting down his Bear Book (which was just getting to the interesting part) and padding over to the bed. “I'm scared,” said Little Bear. “Why are you scared, Little Bear?” asked Big Bear. “I don't like the dark,” said Little ...