Quint Buchholz Quotes

“He reflects on the activities of the day and makes plans for tomorrow. It is a very peaceful but eventful story. ”

“Next door lives Old Mrs. Rose. She had worked in her garden all afternoon. She had dug and hoes and pruned and watered. And while she worked, she told stories to her flowers.”

“Instead of counting sheep, an insomniac little bear sends himself to sleep by contemplating the nighttime world from the bedroom window, remembering the day’s adventures and planning for tomorrow’s.”

“This is a wonderful tale about a little bear that is about to go to sleep but is not tired quite yet. He contemplates the nighttime world from the bedroom window.”

“But he still needed a drink of water from the blue cup, because suddenly he was very thirsty, just as he was every evening. Then he had to put on his red sleeping socks, because he had forgotten them.”

″“In the evening, the little bear took off his apple trousers and put on his star pyjamas. He hard heard a long good-night story. He had said a small prayer. He had hummed with a little sleep song. He had been given give kisses.”

“The little bear often visits Mrs Rose. He listens to her stories. Sometimes he helps with his yellow shovel. He can see from his window that old Mrs. Rose has fallen asleep in her chair. She was that tired.”

“it’s cooler outside now. The ducks are still taking a bath in the river. Sometimes, in the silence, you can hear the frogs croaking. On the deck, a shirt blows in he evening breeze.”

″...to where the moon floats in the heavens like a great round lantern, shining softly on the meadows, on the house, on the trees, on the river, and on the whole world.”

“it ‘s all quiet now. But the little bear is not tired. And when little bears are not tired, they scrambled quietly out of their beds and build themselves a staircase....”