Summers with the Bears : Six Seasons in the North Woods

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Summary: This is a unique, true-life adventure.
Review: For a taste, see the Condensation in the October Reader's Digest magazine. But you'll need to read the book to meet the full cast of characters. These are bears with personalities that will make you laugh and cry. There are 42 photos to back up the story.

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Summary: WONDERFUL!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. What a fantastic relationship between humans and animals. It really touched my heart. Thanks Jack & Patti Becklund!!

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Summary: WONDERFUL!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. What a fantastic relationship between humans and animals. It really touched my heart. Thanks Jack & Patti Becklund!!

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Summary: loved this book...reminds me of friends in Canada
Review: I just loved reading "Summers With The Bear"! I really felt like I would also miss "Little Bit" and the other bears. I wanted there to be another chapter to describe the seventh summer. The way that Jack and Patti wrote about their once in a lifetime adventure was Fantastic.

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Summary: A "Little Bit" Will be Missed by all Who Read this Book!
Review: I just loved reading "Summers With The Bear"! I really felt like I would also miss "Little Bit" and the other bears. I wanted there to be another chapter to describe the seventh summer. The way that Jack and Patti wrote about their once in a lifetime adventure was Fantastic.

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Summary: ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL & BEARY HEARTWARMING!!
Review: I just loved this book. Hated to come to the end. A marvelous and touching story about animals, love and trust and nature. Almost too amazing to be true but with wonderful photos to prove it! I will lie awake at night and dream of Jack and Patti and their bears. Thank you, Becklunds!

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Summary: A New Understanding of Bears
Review: I never understood black bears until reading Jack Becklund's book. I laughed and cried, feeling as if I was right there with Jack and his wife Patti. Afterward, I wanted to visit that area, see the house, see the yard where Little Bit and the other bears played. I now want to find out more about helping these wonderful creatures survive. I have never been more moved by a book. I would love to communicate with Jack and Patti some time and get a picture of "Conversation with a Bear". They are incredible people and so fortunate to have had such a gift in their lives as becoming intimately involved with God's beautiful wildlife.
I would HIGHLY recommend this book. I am reading it again now for the second time. It is hard to put down. Thank you Jack and Patti for sharing this beautiful experience with us.
Joanne Setlock
Wallace Ave.
Buffalo, New York 14216

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Summary: A New Understanding of Bears
Review: I never understood black bears until reading Jack Becklund's book. I laughed and cried, feeling as if I was right there with Jack and his wife Patti. Afterward, I wanted to visit that area, see the house, see the yard where Little Bit and the other bears played. I now want to find out more about helping these wonderful creatures survive. I have never been more moved by a book. I would love to communicate with Jack and Patti some time and get a picture of "Conversation with a Bear". They are incredible people and so fortunate to have had such a gift in their lives as becoming intimately involved with God's beautiful wildlife.
I would HIGHLY recommend this book. I am reading it again now for the second time. It is hard to put down. Thank you Jack and Patti for sharing this beautiful experience with us.
Joanne Setlock
Wallace Ave.
Buffalo, New York 14216

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Summary: loved this book...reminds me of friends in Canada
Review: I read a piece from this book in Reader's Digest. Cut it out and carried it with me. Ordered it as soon as it came out (at Border's books). I loved it. I related to it because of knowing a person whose cabin is on a bear trail. It says alot about trust and friendship between species on this earth.

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Summary: Magical!
Review: If you love animals, nature, the great outdoors, and reading about people who love all those things too, please get this book, sit down with a box of tissues, and enjoy! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shake your head in wonderment. The author Jack Becklund and his wife Patti, move deep into the Minnesota forests. Their property is home to deer gamboling on the lawn, chipmunks and hand-fed squirrels munching seeds on the porch,wild mallard ducks swimming and splashing in the creek below, and a colorful array of native birds. But the real heart of the story is Little Bit, the black bear cub who toddles onto the back deck one day, and stays for the next six summers as a welcome, loving, and deeply loved guest of the couple. She is a magical spirit, a living, breathing gift from God, sent to bring great joy to their lives. We are honored to meet Little Bit's cubs, her mates, and numerous other black bears who live in the area, and come to trust the Becklunds. The story itself is incredible, but between the lines, we watch the couple come to love and appreciate the power of this sacred trust they've been given...the joy of the relationship they share with these magnificent animals.This is a book for all time...a classic in every sense of the word. The photos are magnificent, and bring the personalities of the animals into beautiful focus.