Else Holmelund Minarik.

Else Holmelund Minarik, who was born September 13, 1920, is the author of the Little Bear series of children's books, which were successful as books, and were also made into a successful children's TV series which ran from 1995-2000. The Little Bear books sold more than six million copies worldwide. It was also created as a box office hit children's movie in 2001 called The Little Bear Movie. It was about Little Bear and Father Bear's camping trip, with the voices of Kristin Fairlie as Little Bear and Dan Hennessey as Father Bear.
Else Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting! And my outside reading book, Father Bear Comes Home.
She was born in Denmark, and with her family immigrated to the United States at the age of four. After she graduated from Queens College, City University of New York she became a journalist for the Rome Daily Centennial newspaper and taught first-graders during WWII. Minarik lives in Nottingham, New Hampshire.