What is it like to be a bear? To sleep in a cave all through the winter, to take one spring day and eat fresh honey as the bees buzz around? With clear, informative prose by Karen Wallace--including fascinating facts about black bear behavior in the form of hand-lettered notes--and large sunny watercolors by Barbara Firth, Bears in the Forest takes young readers through two warm summers and two snowy winters in the footsteps of a mother bear and her young cubs. Full-color illustrator.