Advantages: lovely illustrations
Disadvantages: none

...Can’t you sleep little bear by martin Waddell illustrated by Barbara Firth Is your little bear awake? Listen can you hear your 3-5 year old child upstairs still awake, mummy daddy I can’t sleep, pitter patter footsteps coming down stairs mum can I have a drink pitter-patter back upstairs, dad can you switch my light on, mum I am hungry, dad I want you, mummy daddy, any excuse just to get you upstairs. Well I think its time for a story a comfort time a time to try and get your child to relax and go to sleep. I have a book about a little bear its called “Can’t you sleep little bear ” The story is by Martin Waddel . The bear in the story does not like the dark. The illustrations by Barbara Firth are beautiful. It won the Kate Greenway medal and the smarties prize for children’s books . I like... Read review

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Advantages: delightful story and illustrations
Disadvantages: none

...I have two small daughters who love books and also love bears so 'The Beginner's Guide to Bears' was an excellent choice for them. Although it looks like a story book, and indeed its content is entirely fictional, it takes on the guise of a manual which informs its young reader about everything that bears like and do! The book starts by explaining the very special relationship that exists between bears and children: You need a bear And a bear needs you. You and a bear Together makes two. It then goes on to discuss what bears look like, the games they want to play, the food they enjoy (honey of course but lots of other things besides!), the weather they enjoy, how to look after them when they are ill and what they need at bedtime! As you can see, there's pretty much everything a child would need to know about their bear. We... Read review

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Advantages: Charming and witty story, lovely illustrations
Disadvantages: Anthropomorphic animals

...In a cave in the woods, in his deep, dark lair, through the long, cold winter sleeps a great brown bear ……. This is the story of a bear sleeping in his cave during his annual hibernation and what happens when several other woodland creatures happen to come inside to escape the cold outside. Nothing seems to wake the sleeping giant whoever comes or wh