When she first came to the US from Denmark at 4 years old, this author hated learning the English language. She earned degrees in education and psychology and taught first grade for many years, and went on to write some of the first books for young readers in the 1950's for her students and her young daughter. Maurice Sendak illustrated her stories about a bear cub and his mother. The author is Else Homelund Minarik and her first book in 1957 was Little Bear.
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