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A very large picture book with very small pictures. Tells the story of a little bear going into a big house on his own. Would make a great one-on-one story.

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3.0

This is the fourth Little Bear tale and it is every bit as good as the first three. Little Bear is tired of hanging around the forest and decides to be a little boy and go in search of an adventure. Leaving the forest and all his forest friends behind, Little Bear discovers a very large red house with an open door just waiting for a little boy/bear to explore and have an adventure. Which he does, and as night falls, Little Bear, dressed in polka dot PJ's, crawls into a comfy bed, but not for long after hearing some scary noises. Convinced that there are monsters in the house, and after seeing the monster's shadow, Little Bear wishes he were back with his family. Of course, the reader immediately recognizes the shadow as Little Bear's family. The story ends on an ironic note which even younger readers will get. This is an oversized book, with text running across the bottom of each page, leaving a virtual forest and house playground for kids to explore, and they will if they are like my young readers, who will pull out this book just to go over the all the different things they find in the pictures and talk about them. This is a funny, imaginative book about growing up, independence and the importance of family.

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4.0

The kind of detailed illustrations you can keep looking and looking at to find new things. And it's funny.

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