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The Biggest Bear Quotes

10 of the best book quotes from The Biggest Bear
01
“The other barns in the valley usually had a bearskin nailed up to dry. But never Johnny’s barn.”
02
“He liked pancakes on Sunday morning.”
03
“Pretty soon some men came. They were a little surprised to see Johnny in there. They explained to Johnny that they were getting animals for the zoo in the city. They were delighted with Johnny’s bear.”
04
“If I ever see a bear I’ll shoot him so fast he won’t know what hit him. And we’ll have the biggest bearskin in the whole valley.”
05
“What they had to say about Johnny’s bear was plenty. He was a trial and a tribulation to the whole valley.”
06
″‘He will have a fine place to live, and all he wants to eat,’ the men told Johnny. ‘And you can come visit him whenever you want to.‘”
07
“He seemed hungry, so Johnny gave him a piece of maple sugar. On the way home, the bear ate all the maple sugar Johnny had in his pocket.”
08
“On the hill behind the barn, Johnny’s grandfather had planted a few apple trees. These were the only apple trees in the valley, and they were known as Orchard’s orchard.”
09
“Better a bear in the orchard than an Orchard in the bear.”
10
“There was hardly anything he didn’t like, and Johnny’s mother got pretty upset when he started looking for things on the kitchen shelves.”
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