I am looking for a children?s book that I read when I was a kid. (I am
28).  I cannot remember the author or the title.
It was an illustrated book.

A bear would not clean his room. While he slept, the Wind blew all his
stuff out of the house.  To teach him a lesson about being a slob and
not having respect for his things

Unfortunately, we had some sort of appointment, a tea party or
something, and he was in danger of being late because he had no
cloths.  I think they ended up in a tree.
 Anyway, I remember that he wore red or blue overalls and that he had
a potbelly stove.  I remember the Wind and the Moon spying on him
through the window while he slept.

Hello.

Your book was "Little Brown Bear Loses His Clothes" (1978) by Elizabeth Upham.

From the Library of Congress catalog:

"When a young bear refuses to clean his room, Ms. Wind comes during
the night and whisks away his clothes."
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+77084185&CNT=10+records+per+page

Cover photo depicting the bear in blue overalls at Abebooks.com:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?ph=2&bi=291872494
From this listing:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=291872494

Used copies at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/0822865238/

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search strategy:
catalog.loc.gov terms bear wind

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 19 Jul 2004 13:40 PDT

More used copies at Alibris:
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=2006542&qsort=r

That’s it, that’s it! Thank you!