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Copyright © 1962 by Stanley and Janice Berenstain.

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Originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1962.

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Berenstain, Stanley.

The big honey hunt, by Stanley and Janice Berenstain.

[New York] Beginner Books [1962] 63 p. illus. 24cm. (Beginner Books. B‑28)

I. Berenstain, Janice, joint author. II. Title.

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Title Page

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First Page

We ate our honey.

We ate a lot.

Now we have no honey

In our honey pot.

Go get some honey.

Go get some more.

Go get some honey

From the honey store.

We will go for honey.

Come on, Small Bear!

We will go for honey

And I know where.

The store …

She said to

Get it there!

Not at the store.

Oh, no, Small Bear.

If a bear is smart,

If a bear knows how,

He goes on a honey hunt.

Watch me now!

How do you hunt it?

How, Dad, how?

If a bear knows how,

If a bear is smart,

He looks for a bee

Right at the start.

Bees hide their honey

In trees that are hollow.

So we will find

A bee to follow.

Is that a bee?

He went, “Buzz! Buzz!”

He looks like a bee.

Why, yes!

He does.

We will follow that bee …

We will follow that bee …

We will follow that bee

To his honey tree.

That tree!

Is that a honey tree?

It looks like one

So I know it’s one.

Sit down, Small Bear,

And watch the fun.

Small Bear, you watch

Your smart old Dad

Take out more honey

Than you ever had.

Are you getting honey?

Are you getting a lot?

Will we take home honey

In our honey pot?

That is not

A honey bee!

That was not

A honey tree.

The bee!

The bee!

There goes the bee!

On with the honey hunt!

Follow your Pop.

Your Pop will find honey

At the very next stop.

We will follow, and follow …

And follow along!

I will find a new tree

And I won’t be wrong.

Is that a honey tree?

How do you know?

Well, it looks just so.

And it feels just so.

Looks so. Feels so.

So it’s SO!

Now watch, Small Bear.

I am about

To take that

Good old honey out.

How are you doing?

Are you getting a lot?

Are you getting much honey?

Or are you not?

Wrong kind of tree!

Wrong kind of tree!

Look, Dad!

There goes

Your friend the bee!

On with the hunt!

I will not rest.

I will follow that bee

To his honey nest!

When a bear is smart,

When a bear is clever,

He never gives up.

And I won’t, ever!

Dad!

Is that

A bee tree there?

I know it is.

Why, yes, Small Bear.

It can’t be wrong

Like the last tree was.

Only a bee tree

Goes, “Buzz! Buzz!”

Are you getting honey?

Are you doing well?

Or is something wrong?

I smell a smell.

Wrong kind of tree!

Wrong kind of tree!

The bee!

The bee!

I see the bee!

If you want to get honey,

There is just one way.

You must follow your bee

If it takes all day.

If a bear is smart,

If a bear is bright,

A bear keeps going

If it takes all night.

He went in there!

Your friend the bee!

He went in there!

Is this our tree?

Now let me think.

Now let me see …

This looks just like

A honey tree.

And …

It feels

Just like

A honey tree.

And …

It goes, “Buzz! Buzz!”

Like a honey tree.

And …

It tastes

Just like

A honey tree!

And so

You see

This tree must be—

Must, must, must be

A honey tree!

I never saw

More honey! Never!

Now don’t you think

Your Dad is clever?

I think you are

Very clever, Dad.

But your friends the bees

Are very mad!

But Dad!

You left

The honey there!

It was not

The kind I want,

Small Bear.

I will get you honey.

I said I would.

But that bee’s honey

Was not too good.

Where are you going

To find the honey?

Here in the water?

Now that seems funny.

No, we won’t find honey

In here, Small Bear.

But soon, very soon

I will show you where.

When the bees have gone,

We will get along, too.

Your Dad is smart,

And he knows what to do.

But how will you

Do it, Dad?

How, Dad? How?

The best sort of honey

Never comes from bees.

It comes from a store.

I would like some,

Please.