Rachel Baumvol: “Like a mother bear looking for her cubs. A bedtime story about a bear cub for children from one to three years old A tale about a fairy forest of bears and

A little fairy tale “How a she-bear was looking for her cubs” - for little mischief-makers. The mother bear searched and searched for her cubs, but they were already lying “tail to tail” in their native den. This funny story It will appeal to both parents and children, for whom their own home becomes vast and curious, but they always return to their cribs.

About the author:
Rachel was born on March 4, 1914 in Odessa. The first successes of the talented girl were noticed back in early age. The Baumvol family spoke Yiddish. And at the age of five, not yet able to read, she began to compose poetry in this language. She learned Russian only at the age of 6, when she moved to Moscow with her mother. She not only dictated her poems to her mother, and she wrote them down in school notebook in a checkered pattern, but she also made drawings for her poems. When the girl was 9 years old, a cycle of her poems appeared in a Jewish magazine in Paris. Since then, Rachel Baumvol's poems in Yiddish have been published in various children's and youth magazines.
Her fairy tales began to appear in “Detgiz” - a huge and wonderful part of her work. Her mother instilled in her a love of fairy tales. Many years later she would write: “If I now, along with works for adults, also write for children, then this, I think, is because I have retained that child within me... You can talk about everything with a child; Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Krylov also talked to me about everything. I talk to children like a child, but at the same time I’m not afraid to talk to them like an adult.”
In fairy tales for children, of which Rachel Baumwohl wrote many, funny and instructive, there is always the thought of the triumph of Good and Justice. Many people remember the country of Koshatiya, where chicken fat flows in the rivers, Petushiniya, where the earth is fluffy, as if in frost, and the common people there are sick with night blindness; the city of Sobachinsk, where the dog’s cold reigns.
In witty fairy tales, the poetess instills in children high moral qualities - kindness, love for people, humanity.
Rachel Baumwohl's tales are a combination of naivety and surprise. They are a fusion in which humor, slyness, and a smile are involved.
She passed away on June 16, 2000 in Jerusalem.

One day, a little bear cub named Mishutka did not listen to his mother and ran away into the forest far, far from home. Mama bear loved her Mishutka very much, was worried about him and therefore did not allow him to go far from home without her. But Mishutka was spoiled, and when he was allowed to go for a walk, he did not listen to his mother bear, he took him and ran away into the forest.
Here he is walking through the forest, and around there are large and tall trees, cedars, spruces and other trees. Mishutka remembered how his father the bear climbed a tree, and decided to also try to climb a tree, although his mother did not allow him to do this either. He chose the largest and tall tree- a pine tree and climbed onto it. But I must say that all bears have claws on their paws and therefore bears can climb a tree. So Mishutka grabbed the tree trunk with his paws, began to cling with his claws and climbed up. I reached the branches and began to climb further up them. And the branches on big trees thick, big, and Mishutka climbed up to the very top of the tree as if on a big ladder. He sat down on the thickest branch, holding the trunk with his paw, and began to inspect the forest from this tree. The tree was very tall, and from its top everything was visible very far: the whole, entire forest, all sorts of glades, rivers, streams, copses. Mishutka became very interested. He saw that it turned out that the forest was very large, right up to the horizon. In the distance one could see flocks of cranes flying, and far, far away, horses and cows grazed in the clearings. I looked at everything like that for a long time, but then I decided that it was time to climb back to the ground from the tree. Mishutka turned and looked down. It turned out that he climbed so high that even the ground was not visible. But Mishutka didn’t know how to climb down a tree, and he was very scared. He thought that if he fell and fell down, he would break, because he was sitting very high. Mishutka pressed himself tightly against the tree and, of course, began to call his mother for help. He tried to shout loudly, but since he was just a little bear cub, his voice was thin and it didn’t work out loud. Of course, mama bear didn’t hear him. Mishutka called his mother for a long time, but his mother never came to his aid. “Eh, why didn’t I listen to my mother and went so far,” the little bear thought, “who will help me now?” And he felt so sorry that he began to cry. “Who will save me now, who will help me... Now I will disappear here,” Mishutka thought, crying.
But there are many animals and birds in the forest, and at that time a white-sided magpie flew past. She saw that a bear cub was sitting alone on a tree without its mother and crying, she flew up to him, sat down on a branch next to him and asked him:
- Mishutka, Mishutka, why are you crying?
Mishutka turned to the magpie and said:
- How can I not cry? I didn’t listen to my mother, I went far away and my mother doesn’t hear me. But I don’t know how to get down from a tree and now I don’t know how to get down from here. What should I do now, I don’t know. I'm afraid of falling and breaking...
- So why didn’t you listen to your mother?
- I wanted to walk far without her.
- So is it really possible for small children to go far without their mother or father?
- Magpie, I won’t go so far alone again. Help me, fly, call my mother... Now I will always listen to her.
- Okay, where do you live?
- I don't know…
-Where should I fly to call your mother?
“I don’t know,” Mishutka repeated again and began to cry again.
“Okay,” said the magpie, “don’t cry, sit here, and I’ll fly and find out from the animals, maybe someone knows where you live.”
The magpie flew down, stood on a stump and began to think about how to help the bear cub. She saw a hare running past and called him:
- Hey, jumping bunny, long ears short tail, come here.
The hare galloped up to the magpie, stood on its hind legs, and moved its ears.
- What do you want forty, why did you call me?
“Listen, hare,” the magpie began to tell, “there’s a bear cub sitting on this tree at the very top.” He doesn’t know how to get down from there, he’s afraid, and that’s why he cries.
-Where is his mother?
- But he didn’t listen to his mother and ran so far alone.
“So far away and without a mother,” the hare was surprised, “is that possible?”
- This is what a spoiled bear cub turns out to be, and now he’s in trouble because of it. We need to help him.
“Of course we need to help Mishutka out of trouble,” the hare agreed, “but what should we do?”
- I could fly to call his mother, but he doesn’t know where he lives. Call your hares, they run far, maybe someone has seen them.
“Okay,” the hare agreed, “I’ll run right away and call everyone here.”
The hare galloped through the forest and called everyone. The hares gathered, and the hedgehog also came. He heard from the hares about Mishutkin’s trouble and came too. Everyone began to think and decide how to help the bear cub. Then one of the oldest hare remembered where Mishutka lived.
- Hey, magpie, I know where he lives, I’ll show you. It's very far away. I will jump on the ground, and you fly after me.
“Okay,” agreed the magpie, “run quickly.”
The hare ran to Mishutka’s mother, and the magpie flew after him. And the little animals are all thinking about how to help the bear cub, because the hedgehog said:
- What if his mother doesn’t catch him in time, and he falls from there. We still need to help him out.
The hares thought, but they didn’t come up with anything.
- We can’t climb trees, and neither can you. How can we help him?
“Yes, of course,” the hedgehog agreed, “someone needs to be able to climb trees.”
“Wait a minute,” the hedgehog said judiciously, “we need to call the squirrel.” She knows how to climb trees well, and she will teach Mishutka how to get down from the tree.
“That’s right, that’s right,” all the hares shouted at once, “we need to call the squirrel as soon as possible.” Let's run to look for the squirrel!
Immediately, several hares began running in different directions to look for the squirrel. Soon the fastest hare saw a squirrel on a tree. She was sitting in a tree near her hollow house and shelling nuts.
“Hey, squirrel,” the hare called her, “come here quickly!”
-Who is calling me? - the squirrel responded.
- It’s me, hare, come here quickly! Something bad happened in our forest.
- Trouble? In our forest? Now, now I will come down to you.
Immediately the squirrel came down from the tree and approached the hare.
- What is it, what happened? Speak quickly, hare.
- You see, the bear cub Mishutka did not listen to his mother, he ran far into the forest, then climbed a tall tree, but could not get down.
- How can that be, he has claws on his paws!
- But he doesn’t know how to climb down, he’s afraid and cries. Let's go to him, you're good at climbing trees, show him what to do to get down from the tree.
- Of course, of course, I will quickly teach him. Show me where to run. You run, and I’ll jump along the trees and branches, it will be faster.
The hare turned around and started skipping towards the tree where Mishutka was sitting, and the squirrel galloped after him along the tree branches, jumping from one branch to another, from one tree to another. So they ran to the tree where Mishutka was sitting.
A hedgehog saw a squirrel, called her and said:
- Hello, squirrel. It's good that you came. We had some trouble here, a bear cub climbed up this tall tree, but he couldn’t get down, he couldn’t do it and was afraid and crying. You're smart, you know how to climb trees well. Go to Mishutka and help him. We ask you very much.
- Of course, hedgehog, now I’ll climb up to Mishutka and teach him how to get down from the tree.
Immediately the squirrel quickly climbed up the tree to the bear cub, sat down next to him and touched him with her paw.
- Mishutka, and Mishutka, why are you crying?
Mishutka saw the squirrel, was happy and stopped crying.
- Squirrel, hello. It's good that you came. Help me please. Teach me how to climb down a tree, otherwise I don’t know how and I’m very afraid of falling down.
- Do not be afraid. You have sharp claws on your paws. Grab the tree with your paws, grab it with your claws and slowly step from branch to branch.
- And that’s how I came up here.
- Now go down the same way. Just don't look down so as not to get scared. Just look at the branches you'll be climbing down. And I will be next to you, so don’t be afraid.
- Okay, squirrel, I’ll try that now.
- Look, slowly stand on this branch, which is a little lower, and hold on to the other with your claws.
Little Bear began to do as the squirrel taught him and slowly climb down from the tree. It steps from branch to branch, from twig to twig, and holds on tightly with its paws and claws so as not to fall. I had already completely descended, almost to the bottom of tears, but I hurried a little. I stood on a branch, but it turned out to be old and broke. The bear cub fell from this branch and flew down. I almost hurt myself, but on a lower branch I caught my pants on it and hung above the ground. The hares got scared and ran away. Only the hedgehog was not afraid. He sees Mishutka hanging and shouted to the hares:
- Hey, you long-eared ones. Why are you running away? You see, Mishutka is hanging on a branch, we need to help him out again.
They all got together again: the hares, the hedgehog, the squirrel, and began to think about how to help the bear cub out again. We need a ladder, but where can we get one in the forest? The animals are sad and don’t know how to help the bear cub.
“We are too small,” the hares complained, “and you, the hedgehog, and you, the squirrel, are also small.” We won’t be able to take the bear cub off the branch. It needs someone big and strong.
The animals are completely sad; they don’t know what to do or how to help Mishutka out. And Mishutka got scared again and cried.
Meanwhile, a white-sided magpie flew to Mishutkin’s house, sat down on a tree nearby and called the bear, Mishutkin’s mother Maria Ivanovna.
- Hey, Maria Ivanovna, come out quickly, I know what I know and I’ll tell you.
The mother bear left the house and came closer to the white-sided magpie.
- What do you want to tell, white-sided magpie?
- Here's what. Your little son, Teddy Bear, ran far away, climbed a tree, but couldn’t get down. Sits and cries. Just look, it will fall from the tree and break. Quickly run to help him out.
The mother bear was afraid for her son Mishutka. Mothers all love their children, and so does the bear.
- Oh, magpie, thank you for saying that. But I'm looking for him everywhere and can't find him. Rather, show me where to run.
The white-sided magpie flew towards Mishutka, and the mother bear quickly ran skipping through the forest after her. Whether it was a long or short run, the magpie bear brought her to the tree where the little bear was hanging on a branch. The animals were delighted and quickly began to tell the bear what had happened. The squirrel and the hedgehog told her to quickly climb the tree and help Mishutka. The bear Marya Ivanovna was strong and big. She firmly grabbed the tree with her claws, climbed up to Mishutka and unhooked his pants from the branch, put him on the back of her neck and descended with him safely to the ground.
All the animals were happy that Mishutka had been rescued from trouble. The hares even started dancing, and the squirrel and the hedgehog clapped their hands.
Mishutka was also happy and began to thank everyone:
- Thank you all for helping me so much. And thank you, hares, and you, squirrel, and you, magpie, and you, hedgehog.
Then he turned to Mama Bear and asked for forgiveness:
- Forgive me, mom, I won’t do that again. Now I will always listen to you.
And mother bear forgave him and did not scold him. Because all mothers love their children very much and always forgive them for their pranks.

A bedtime story about a bear with a sweet tooth will set your baby up for a restful, moderate sleep. It tells a story little bear and his mother. In the fairy tale about the little bear, he finds himself in a sweet land and eats too much sweets, his tummy begins to hurt.

Read bedtime stories about a bear cub with your child, and the next day you can play the game “my theater” and take a fairy tale instead of a script. This way, the baby will quickly remember that you can’t eat a lot of sweets and you need to listen to your mother.

Tale about a bear cub

Far, far away, in the deepest part of the forest, lived a family of bears. And they had a little son, a bear. His name was Balu. The kid was spoiled. And all because he had neither sisters nor brothers.

Baloo also had a big sweet tooth, and he ate a lot of sweets, which worried his mother. And they showed him to the doctors and went to the forest witch. No one could cope with the bear's desire to indulge in sweets. And all you could hear from him was “chocolate”, “honey”, “marmalade”.

And then the mother bear went to the fairies of the blue lake. She had a long, difficult journey ahead of her. She threw the bear cub on her shoulders, and stomped along the yellow path, along the green swamp and came out to the old oak tree. She sat down on a tree stump to rest and began to feed the bear cub porridge. And he burst into tears, he wanted something sweet. Mama bear decided to pick a basket of berries. The path was still long, but the baby was capricious. She collected raspberries and strawberries in a basket. She fed her little one before continuing on her way, and refreshed herself.

She walked through a ringing stream, went out to the sunny edge of a chamomile meadow and met a running bunny there.

- Dear bunny, tell me

Show us the quick way.

We got a little lost

Tell us the way.

- You go just a little bit,

There will be a path behind the edge.

If you go straight,

The lake is easy to find.

Miracle lake forest,

It's such a wonder.

There are flowers growing around there,

Unprecedented beauty.

There on the orchid

You will see a fairy.

Tell me your trouble

The fairy will say: “I’ll help.”

And the mother bear and her cub went to the lake. And everything is as the bunny told her. There were flowers around the lake beautiful flowers. It was so wonderful that she couldn’t get enough of it and almost forgot about her problem. And all this time Baloo was gorging himself on berries, and got his hands and mouth dirty. Mother Bear saw that the basket was empty. Yes, I immediately remembered why I was looking for fairies. She found beautiful flower an orchid, and I noticed a fairy on it.

- Oh, forest beauty,

I don’t know what to do.

My son eats chocolate

And I'm glad for a keg of honey.

He cries day and night

He asks for sweets a lot.

I can't refuse

Because I'm a mother

Our Balu at least once

He listened to a simple decree.

Doesn't want to listen to anyone

Just to eat something sweet.

The fairy answers mom: -

I will help your sadness.

I know a simple remedy

There will be no room for sweets.

And I will send it at the same time,

To the sweet land I take you.

Everything was spinning around

We suddenly found ourselves in the country.

Mother bear grabbed her head when she saw how much sweetness was around. Yes, I thought: “What have you done fairy, there are so many sweets around, my friend won’t be able to resist.” And the little bear was happy. And he began to run through clouds of cotton candy, and he ate marshmallow fields and swam in chocolate rivers. I managed to try everything. The bear's mother sat down upset on a pillow made of marmalade, and began to feel even more sad. A fairy flew up to her...

- Don't be afraid, dear,

The fairy knows her stuff.

Here's a cure for your pain.

Little bear of his own free will.

He won't eat sweets.

Here's some news for you!

The bear decided to believe the fairy. And then Balu approached her from behind. Tearful, sobbing. His tummy hurts. And the fairy told him that babies can’t eat too much sweets. Otherwise, your tummy will hurt a lot, and often. And she punished him to obey his mother. The little bear understood that he needed to take care of his body and eat more vegetables. A couple of days later they were home, happy and cheerful. Baloo was no longer capricious about sweets and ate them only on holidays.

A bedtime story about a bear with a sweet tooth teaches a child from childhood that he should not eat too much sweets. Such a fairy tale can be read to children who were early accustomed to chocolate. This will teach the child to know when to stop and listen to his mother. And so that the child can receive sweets, but it does not harm him, we have prepared an article in which there are ways to replace chocolate.

This is how a child is designed, that he loves fairy tales. Fairy tales are good for everyone - they will teach you good things, punish evil, and tell you about fairy-tale heroes. Fairy tales are good during the day and in the evening, when it’s time for the child to sleep. Bedtime stories - calm, quiet plan.

Listen to a fairy tale (4min29sec)

Bedtime story “Honey and the Little Bear”

The bear cub lost his barrel of honey. Who took it? The little bear thought and thought and decided that a squirrel did it.

- Of course, how could a squirrel not like such aromatic honey? She puts her paw in the barrel, eats a little, then picks it up again. What a good activity! He enjoys the honey and drinks tea. Of course she took it.

The little bear went to the squirrel. I came and looked and there was no smell of honey in the house.

- What have you lost, clubfoot? - asked the squirrel.

- Yes, I lost my honey, I thought you ate it.

“I didn’t take your honey,” said the squirrel.

The little bear went home. Sits, thinks.

- Who else could take the honey? Probably a hedgehog. He likes to play around with medicine in his spare time. When all the work is done, why not pour honey into the jar and enjoy it? Exactly, hedgehog. I'll go to him.

He comes to the hedgehog in the room and leads his nose back and forth. Trying to smell the honey. The hedgehog looks at the bear cub in confusion and says:

- What's the matter, little bear?

— The barrel of honey disappeared somewhere. You didn't take it, Prickly?

“I didn’t even know you had honey,” said the hedgehog.

The little bear again went to his den.

- If it’s not a squirrel or a hedgehog, then who took the honey? - the clubfoot thought. - Yeah, I know for sure, it’s an owl. She flies everywhere, spies on everything, and she hid the honey. And on warm evenings he probably organizes honey gatherings. He sits and indulges in medicine. I'll go to her.

The little bear cub came to the tree where the owl lives and climbed up it. The owl's house is high up. The owl saw the guest and asked:

- What happened, clubfoot? I didn't invite you to my place.

“I’ve lost my honey,” said the little bear. - The squirrel and the hedgehog didn’t take him. So you have it.

“But no,” said the owl. “Neither I, nor the squirrel, nor the hedgehog eat honey.” I never had it in my house.

The little bear was completely confused. The honey couldn't have fallen through the ground. And the owl says:

- Let's go to you and look for it.

In the farthest room, in the farthest corner, on the farthest shelf, the owl found a barrel of honey.

“I’m so forgetful,” said the little bear, “after all, I hid this from myself so as not to eat it all at once.” And I forgot about it. Thank you, owl, for finding the honey. Sit down, I'll tell you linden tea I'll pour it.

Until the evening, the bear cub and the owl had tea. Then the owl flew away, and the bear went to bed. He dreamed of honey: aromatic, fragrant, sweet. It was the color of amber, or maybe even better.

I wonder what you will dream about today, my friend? Maybe sweet honey too? Or a sweet dream about something else? Come on, go to sleep quickly.