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Baby Bear's Big Dreams

Baby Bear's Big Dreams Review


by Jane Yolen



Overall 4.00 of 5 (by 1 user)



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AnneWithAnE
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A sweet honey of a book about a beloved bear.
4 star rating

kidlit maven, Picture-book connoisseur, personal bookworm trainer
Pros

    Excellent rhymes, Part of 'Baby Bear' series


OCT
26
2007
Baby Bear's Big Dreams
by Jane Yolen; illustrated by Melissa Sweet

This Baby Bear is well worth the cover price for rhymes that gleefully glide past and a fanciful premise. Okay, the idea of a little kid dreaming of what he'll get to do as a big kid has been done to death, but Yolen has a way of making it worth one more try:

When I grow up
in a year or four,
I'll get a tent
and go explore.
I'll wear brown boots
and a feathered hat,
and bring along
a sleeping mat.

 

See? What'd I tell ya. Nice stuff. And you even get some counting in there, as she goes from one year to five, with Baby Bear still needing a good-night tuck even when he's all grown up. It's written from inside a kid's head, with all the contradictions and exaggerations playfully glossed over with a big smooch.

Sweet's watercolors are, well, sweet, and get the job done without too much fuss.

I_thumb_up Baby Bear's Big Dreams is recommended by AnneWithAnE


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