Children's picture book for the 4-6 year old range. Two or three beavers go hiking in the woods and get lost. It gets dark and possibly stormy they find a house and settle in then more animals start showing up looking for shelter. There is a cute catchphrase every time a new animal comes in like "who's there". Then at the end the owner of the house is a bear and all the animals are scared but of course he is friendly and makes them dinner possibly soup! Favorite children's book when I was young and I cannot find it anywhere and have had zero luck on Google! I would love to read this to my kids before they outgrow it!
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This sounds a lot like “Bear Snores On” by Karma Wilson.
I’ve read this too…unfortunately, I can’t remember the title either. I think it was a Japanese author though, and I thought the first name was something like Keiko or Kazuko, but my best efforts don’t reveal anything. It almost looks like
I think my library may still have the book, so I’ll look and try to find it!
I wonder if it was one of the Mr Bear books by Chizuko Kuratomi? They were published in the 70s. I have “Mr Bear Goes to Sea” and haven’t seen any of the others, but there are a few images of the cover art at the following link and you could see if it looks familiar. The smaller characters are usually rabbits rather than beavers, I think.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chizuko-Kuratomi/e/B001KHS19O
There’s a list of other titles here (a Google result): https://g.co/kgs/ESNZdP
Augh! I know this one too, our public library has it but I can’t think of the title! I believe it starts with two rabbits, and it’s getting foggy as well as dark. The bear’s cabin is very rustic, with lots of clues that a bear lives there. The drawings don’t have much color to them, mostly done in a light brown. The little animals are all hiding in the bear’s bed, and I think one of them remains completely passed out through every scary knock on the door. And yes, the dinner is soup!
Got it! “May We Sleep Here Tonight?” by Tan Koide
http://www.powells.com/book/-9780689832888
And I was wrong, the first arrivals are three gophers.