Gentle Ben is a children's novel by author Walt Morey, first published in 1965. The book concerns the friendship between the title character, a bear, and a young boy named Mark. The story was later made into a film and television series (1967-1969), as well as made-for-TV movies which originally aired in 2002 and 2003.
Famous quotes containing the words gentle and/or ben:
““And you each gentle animal
In confidence may bind,
And make them follow at your call,
If you are always kind.””
—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879)
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)