The Bear on the Bed - Softcover

Miller, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553376870 ISBN 13: 9781553376873

Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2004

Synopsis

Lively rhyming verse and delightful illustrations tell the story of a bouncy bear's visit to summer camp.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Miller's stories are in rhyming text with delightful illustrations. They are excellent read-aloud books for preschoolers and young school aged children. Ruth lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Bill Slavin is an award-winning children's book illustrator with over 50 books to his credit. His works include Stanley?s Party and The Bear on the Bed. He lives in Millbrook, Ontario.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-Miller relates an anecdote, which is based on one of her own summer camp experiences, in rollicking, rhyming verse. Throughout the story, an enthusiastic, big brown bear opts out of myriad campground diversions in favor of hanging out in the cabin and on the bunk of a mortified little girl in pigtails. Then comes the punch line: The child says, "And after he snoozed/and danced on my bed,/And after he jumped/and bounced on my bed,/And after he almost fell/on his head-/That naughty old bear-/He POOPED on my bed!" As far as kids are concerned, this is a fail-safe storyhour crowd-pleaser. Parents and other adults, however, may be underwhelmed at best. Slavin's exuberant cartoon art is rendered in acrylics on gessoed paper. This gleefully perverse inversion of "Goldilocks" has enough child appeal to justify purchase, but be prepared for some parents to groan out loud when they read the last page.
Catherine Threadgill, Charleston County Public Library, SC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1553376870
• ISBN 13: 9781553376873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Slavin Bill