Nancy White Carlstrom

At Halloween Jesse Bear picks out a pumpkin, helps make a jack-o-lantern, works on a costume, and has fun trick-or-treating.

Jesse Bear experiences the sights, smells, sounds, and activities of Christmas, from decorations and gifts to baking and caroling.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe Jesse Bear's activities from morning to bedtime. These are recitable rhymes about a most endearing bear, who, like all toddlers, makes the simplest tasks in an ordinary day wholly exciting and new. Catchy and fun, with illustrations that some find too sweet, but others believe are "just right." Jesse Bear, what will you wear? What will you wear in the morning! My shirt of red Pulled over my head Over my head...

Rhymed text and illustrations describe Jesse Bear's activities from January to December.

Celebrates the world of nature that God has made, from the raven's call to a pod of orca whales.

Three mothers and their offspring--fox, rabbit, and human--wait for the first snow of winter.

Rhyming text and illustrations describe all the activities associated with Jesse Bear's birthday party.

On a trip to an amusement park, Jesse Bear counts things from one silly (giggle) to ten rocks, counting on up to twenty at the end of the book.

From early morning to bedtime, rhymes present the activities of Jesse Bear as he dresses, plays, eats, and gets ready for bed.

A child says goodnight to the natural world and all those that occupy it.