The Arkansaw Bear
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| Author(s): | Albert Bigelow Paine |
| Illustrator(s): | Frank Ver Beck |
| Publisher(s): | Henry Altemus Company |
| Year Published: | 1902 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Adventure American Animal Fantasy Bears Boys Growing Up Fiction - Novel Humorous Running away Home |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 253 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 916432883 |
Description
Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.
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The Arkansaw Bear (1898)
Runaway Bocephus meets Horatio the fiddle-playing bear in the woods and teaches him the rest of his song as they take to the road. This is the first edition, identified by a misprint of T for B at the start of chapter 2. Read online at archive.org.
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