Where are the two bear cubs? Mother Grizzly Bear thinks that her two playful cubs are wrestling and having fun along the riverbank while she is checking her fish traps. When she returns to join her sons, however, she discovers the cubs are nowhere to be found.

All the animals of the village search vainly for the missing bears, until Red-tailed Hawk reports he has located them high atop a huge granite rock at the edge of Yosemite Valley. Hoping to rescue the cubs, each of the animals in turn tries to scale the vertical wall, but each fails. The fate of the young bears rests with tiny Measuring Worm, who is the last to attempt to climb the hulking rock.

In this authentic Southern Sierra Miwok legend, masterfully retold by Robert D. San Souci and wonderfully illustrated by Daniel San Souci, young readers will discover how the bear cubs are saved, learn the traditional Miwok story of how a rock grew to become one of Yosemite's most famous landmarks, and come to realize that being a hero has very little to do with one's size.

35 pp. Hardcover. 1997