Else Holmelund Minarik, the acclaimed children’s book author best known for her Little Bear books for early readers, died on July 12 at her home in Sunset Beach, N.C., of complications from a recent ...

Else Holmeland Minarik spent her last years in relative seclusion, guarding the privacy of the rural home she called “Frog Heaven.” ...

In Little Bear's Valentine, Else Holmelund Minarik continues the hero's adventures begun with Little Bear, with illustrations by Heather Green (after the style of Maurice Sendak, the original ...

CALABASH | Else Holmelund Minarik lives quietly on the edge of what she calls Frog Heaven in Brunswick County. Sitting at a long antique harvest table facing a window wall overlooking the marsh, she ...

The first book I read by myself was Else Holmelund Minarik’s “Little Bear.” The illustrations were by Maurice Sendak. I was in my first grade classroom at Clermont Elementary in Clermont, Florida. I ...