The Bear’s First Story

from Through the Mickle Woods

by Valiska Gregory with illustrations by Barry Moser

Through the Mickle Woods is a book for all ages that tells the story of a king and a boy named Michael who journey through the great woods to the cave of a bear who tells them three stories.  The author reads the bear's first story in this podcast.  Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award, this book was featured as a best book of the year on CBS-TV’s “This Morning Show.”  The Horn Book said "the language and phrasing are as pleasing to the ear as the story is to the heart."