In this sweet and gentle picture book, Bear wakes one day to find his Smile gone and enlists his friends to help him find it. Bear and Smile are always together. They wake up together, swim by the waterfall together, and eat honey together. But one day, Bear wakes up and Smile is nowhere to be found. With the help of his woodland friends, will Bear be able to find his Smile again? This tender and special debut picture book explores sadness with a light touch and shows that sometimes a good friend can make all the difference.

"List of authorities": pages 503-526.

Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

A rogue order of nuns tucked away in Humboldt County are raising an abandoned deity on the down-low in this enchanting fable that pits the spiritual creatives against the forces of ecclesiastical terrorism.