Edith and Little Bear Lend a Hand by Dare Wright

that the Oakland city council was playing games and didn’t really mean to shut the libraries down but wanted city employees to reduce their pensions. People would stop and say how they never signed petitions but they would for us. People responded to us and our table, and in the end we had more signatures than anyone else in the city, about 20-25% of all signatures. When my daughter was about 8, and Oakland threatened to shut down 14 of their 17 libraries- including the children’s library, she and I set up a table with visuals borrowed from this book, the doll and the bears and their picket signs with messages about books in general and children’s books in particular written inside. This particular plot also made me feel that passion matters and doing something about that passion is powerful. Her photographs make the characters look so lifelike and full of charm, like the European fairy tales of dolls coming to life when the adults aren’t looking. Dare Wright books are magical, in that she could truly think like a child even as an adult, so that it rang true to me reading it over and over again. This is one of my favorite books from childhood, and I kept careful track of it, not sharing it with my younger siblings, for a reason. Wright at the end of the book for your enjoyment. And for all you fans there's a very sexy glamour shot of Ms.

I liked all the cool outfits Wright put Edith in - she's quite a dresser for a little girl. The book was created in 1972, and there's even a shot of our three buddies on a Hudson River ferry with the World Trade Center in the background. Shot partially on the streets of Manhattan, Lend A Hand is as political as Dare Wright got in her books. Edith and Little Bear get to work literally cleaning up the streets of Manhattan. Bear into telling them that protest isn't enough, activism gets the job done.

Their efforts end up on the 6 O'Clock News, provoking Mr. Only problem is Edith and Little Bear love the Big Apple so much they decide to protest urban decay dressed up as hippies in front of City Hall. Bear decides to move out of the city with his two young charges Edith and Little Bear.

Disgusted with the amount of air pollution, littering and noise pollution ruining New York City, Mr.

Edith and Little Bear Lend a Hand by Dare Wright