Little Bear (Little Bear, 1)

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I have come across this book whilst on my first placement in a Special School. My severe learning difficulties nursery class are reading the book as part of their literacy lessons which they absolutely love. However as they are so young and don’t yet have the cognitive ability to have this book read to them fully as a class they have the story read to them as a sensory story – which I have found fascinating.

Little Bear: Meet Little Bear, a friend to millions of children. And meet Mother Bear, who is there whenever Little Bear needs her. When it is cold and snowy outside, she finds just the right outfit for Little Bear to play in. When he goes to the moon, she has a hot lunch waiting for him on his return. And, of course, she never forgets his birthday. The English books are categorized as I Can Read Series Beginner Level 1. Since we are mainly focusing on Chinese learning at home, we have not yet read the English versions of the Little Bear books. Assuming that he effectively masters the characters introduced in Si Wu Kuai Du, which level should I start from for Odonata? This is one of the books from James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die A Life-Changing List. The first three books in the Little Bear series were all published by Harper and Brothers. In 1962, Harper and Brothers merged with Row, Peterson, and Company to form the new company Harper and Row, which published the next book in 1968. Harper and Row then merged with William Collins in 1990 to form HarperCollins Publishers LLC, which published the final book in the series.This story depicts patience and kindness on the part of big bear, where he goes to great lengths to help little bear realise that the dark is nothing to be afraid of.

Out of the six total Little Bear books, the first four books are broken up into four chapters each, while the last two books each consist of only one story. The first book to feature a cohesive plot between chapters was " Little Bear's Visit", in which all four chapters follow Little Bear on a visit to his gradparents' house. Little Bear is a picture book that contains four stories in it. Although I read all four stories, I will summarize the first story titled, "What Will Little Bear Wear?" The story is about a bear who goes outside to play and gets cold. The little bear comes inside several times and tells his mother that he is cold playing outside. Each time that little bear comes inside because he is cold, his mother gives him another article of clothing to put on to keep warm when he is playing outside. Finally, the mother has given the little bear everything that she can think of to keep him warm, and little bear decides that what he really needs is a fur coat. Little bear removes all of the clothing that the mother bear has given him, and goes out to play as he originally was in his own fur coat. This time, however, little bear is warm.Take a look at the photographs that I have shared below or consider borrowing a copy at your local library to see if your child might be interested in this set! This is a story about a little bear that is afraid of the dark, yet overcomes this fear with the help of Big Bear, a portrayal similar to parent and child and hence easy to relate to the comfort sought and the comfort given. Because the animals talk about wearing clothes, going fishing with dad, celebrating a birthday, imagination, and friendship, the series are great for building up common, everyday Chinese parenting and family vocabulary.