The Biggest Bear is a children's picture book by Lynd Ward, first published in 1952.

[1] The Biggest Bear was the first children's picture book for which Ward was both author and illustrator.

[2] Ward set the story in the backwoods of Northern Ontario, an area he was familiar with[3] as his parents had taken him to Sault Ste.

As he grows, the bear becomes a nuisance to Johnny's family and the neighbors due to his enormous appetite.

In The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker cited The Biggest Bear as an example of how the innate human fear can become manifested in literature.