Ritchie. What Bear Likes Best

What Bear Likes Best is a children's book by Alison Ritchie, with art by Dubravka Kolanovic, published in 2005. It is available at the Internet Archive.

Here is a YouTube read-along:

Bear is sunning himself when a Bee lands on his nose and tells him to stop squashing the flowers, so Bear rolls down the hill; rolling is one of the things he likes best. But then he lands on Mole, so he runs away and splashes in the water; splashing is one of the things he likes best. But Heron complained, so Bear scratched against a tree; scratching is one of the things he likes best (you get the idea!). This wakes Fox, so Bear climbs the tree and swings; swinging... But this bothers Woodpecker, so Bear goes back to sun himself some more. Bee, Mole, Heron, Fox, and Woodpecker all come to see him (this is the cumulative part): you're annoying, but fun to play with, so they all go play, and playing with friends is what Bear really likes BEST.

It is a very sweet little story, and cute artwork too; the animals are very stylized.

I'm not really sure how to classify this. I suppose it has a lot in common with the chain-of-companions so, at least for now, that's what I'll label it... even if, in their first encounter, the animals all tell Bear to go away!