Little Bear meets his wild counterpart in this first feature-length offering from Maurice Sendak and company. Father Bear and son head for the hills to camp, but Little Bear gets sidetracked and meets some real wild animals. When the ursine urbanite tries to chat up a predatory mountain lion, he is rescued by Cub, another young black bear who's lost his parents. So father and son take Cub back to the homestead to teach him about flapjacks and furniture. The next day Little Bear's woodland pals form a search party and head back to the wilderness to find Cub's missing mom and dad. While there is a message here about accepting differences, the delight of the Little Bear series is that such messages are well hidden beneath layers of kid-sized adventure and humor, so viewers never feel clobbered. This 74-minute movie features the original songs "Great Big World" and "Everybody Wants to Paint My Picture" sung by Shawn Colvin with her usual exquisiteness. --Kimberly Heinrichs