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A Birthday For Bear: An Early Reader (2009)

by Bonny Becker(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0763637467 (ISBN13: 9780763637460)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: I really enjoyed reading through this story and checking out the highly-detailed illustrations on each and every page. Some scenes in the story spanned both pages and others had two separate images that helped you see what was going on. I really liked a couple pages in particular where mouse was standing outside the door with balloons on the left page and the right page had bear standing on the other side of the door and you could see the balloons through the window. Those two pages allowed readers to get two different viewpoints of the same scene. This was a story where you could have taken most if not all the words away and, you would still been able to tell what was going on in the story. Mouse tried several things to try to get bear in a happy mood and ready to ha... moreve some fun with him and eventually succeeded in the end. The expressions on the faces of mouse and bear both easily allowed the reader to see what kind of mood each character was in. Younger children would really enjoy this book as a read aloud in class.
review 2: Remember Bear? He hated visitors until Mouse came along? Well, now he hates birthdays, but I think we can count on Mouse to change that.What I thought: Hilarious! Bear and Mouse are such great characters. Bear's repeated insistence that he hates birthdays will draw giggles from all children. The illustrations are lovely as always. I think Kady is becoming one of my favorite illustrators. She used such soft color and the detail, oh my! My favorite illustrations are Bear sweeping Mouse out and party time (pp.48-50).Story Time Themes: Birthdays, Friendship less

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