Fraser Bear: A Cub's Life

One day a little girl accompanies her conservationist father as he tags a big black hibernating bear. Nestled beside her are two tiny cubs, a male and a female. The child names them Fraser and Samantha. She will remember them always, and one day will see Fraser again.

Fraser Bear follows the first two years in a black bear cub’s life in the Pacific Northwest—from his first tentative steps outside his mother’s den to the day when, alone now, he must find his own den for the winter’s sleep. In...