Little Bear: 1

This book was oddly charming. So simple yet my children loved listening to me read it to them. I think my 9 year old felt a bit baffled as to why he enjoyed listening to it. He's quite advanced for his age and so are his choices of books but found this oddly captivating lool. It's been a delight to read to them!

I was so pleased to find this, as I adored it as a child. My 5.5-year-old son is struggling with reading, so I've just read the stories aloud to him at bedtime, but the book would be ideal for a child just learning to read on his or her own. The language is simple and the stories short, but the book is still engaging enough for parents to read aloud, and both my son and my 3.5-year-old daughter love it.

This lovely, simple story has plenty of the rhythmic repetition that children love - whether as a listening story, as my children loved this, or more prosaically as a learning-to-read book.The quizzical illustrations are a perfect delight, the tone just right and without the 'clever' adult patronising with which so much British children's literature is blighted...

I loved this book when my own children were small, so I bought it for my grandson. Children will enjoy the simple text and clear pictures, while adults will recognise the character of little bear and the frustrations of his mother.

Our 6 children loved 'Little Bear' over 30 years ago and their children are similarly delighted with these deceptively simple, direct, warm and lovely tales...like being wrapped in a cuddly woolly blanket. The beautiful illustrations perfectly complement the text and the stories (in individual books when our children were introduced to them) were the ones the children always wanted to come back to...night after night after night....

sweet little book for my young grandaughter

My sons absolutely adore these stories. Perfect for a beginning reader.

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