Little Bear (An I Can Read Book) Paperback – February 18, 2003

Appropriate for my first grader. She does well reading it and is able to tell me about the story. The artwork is also appropriate.

This is my go-to book for teaching beginning readers. It's interesting and gently humorous, and the pictures are charming -- but a lot of books have those qualities. What makes this book (and the other Little Bear books) so great is that the words are almost all common words a reader is likely to encounter often, they're almost all easy words that can be sounded out, and there's a fair amount of repetition with slight variations. Because of this, the child's effort and success in reading one word are likely to pay off in reading that same word or a similar word later on the page or one the next page. The child quickly starts to feel familiar with some words, and consequently more and more confident and optimistic about being able to read. This is especially valuable if the child has fallen behind and is discouraged. I find that after reading one or a few of these books, children are able to progress to well-written books at level 2 such as Frog and Toad.This is not the case with all so-called "beginner" books. Some of them have charming pictures and only a few words per page but those words are too hard for most beginners to sound out and aren't particularly common words, so having learned that word is of limited use when the child tries to read the next word (which is also often neither easy nor extremely common). Such books are great for adults to read TO kids, and for kids to pretend to read once they've memorized the words, but aren't very helpful for teaching and reinforcing the building blocks of reading. The Little Bear books do just that in an enjoyable way. I'm so grateful for them!

This little bear book is absolutely darling. It is good quality and has a good story. It also goes along with Logic of English curriculum that I use.

I purchased this for my children to see if they would enjoy this book as I did as a child. It’s easy for them to read and comprehend and it’s a story I’m able to pass down to them.

My very busy 5-yr-old grandson sat through the whole book as I read to him. The illustrations are so engaging. I have loved this book for many years and am glad to pass it along to him.

Grandchild loves reading this book. Helping him with reading skills.

Beautiful book for young children Easy reader.

This was one of my favorite books when I was a child. I read it to my kids too, and now am giving one to our grandchild. Every child should have this book.