Author's Little bear, 1957.

Her It's spring!, 1989: CIP t.p. (Else Holmelund Minarik; copr. Else Minarik Bigart)

New York times WWW site, July 17, 2012 (in obituary published July 13: Else Holmelund Minarik; b. Else Holmelund, Sept. 13, 1920, Denmark; moved with her family to the U.S. at age 4; m. Walter Minarik (d. in the 1960s), Homer Bigart (d. 1991); d. Thursday [July 12, 2012], Sunset Beach, N.C., aged 91; writer for children whose Little Bear picture-book series has been a mainstay of childhood for more than half a century)