A Story for Bear
Thursday July 2, 2009
A Story for Bear, a fantasy that seems real, will appeal to 4- to 8-year-olds. This picture book is the story of an unusual friendship between a woman staying in a cabin near the woods and one of the most appealing bears I have ever seen. Jim LaMarche's illustrations in acrylic paint and colored pencil fill the pages with hazy scenes of summer in the woods and the amazing friendship that grows between the woman who sits outside each day reading a book and the bear who was eager "to understand what she was doing as she held the book."
Other Good Picture Book Read-Alouds
What are some of the children's picture books you enjoy reading to your children? Click on "Comments" below and share your favorites.(Cover art courtesy of Harcourt, Inc.)
Comments
One of my new favorites to read with my grandchildren is: the show-and-tell lion by Barbara Abercrombie and Lynne Avril Cravath. A little boy’s very vivid imagination leads him into a show-and-tell story at school that he does not know how to stop. It is published by Margaret K. McElderry Books.