Where is baby bear , Daddy (Mr. Bear Says: Are You There, Baby Bear? - Debi Gliori)

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Product:	Mr. Bear Says: Are You There, Baby Bear? - Debi Gliori
Date:	18/09/07 (186 review reads)
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Advantages: lovely book

Disadvantages: none

Are you there baby bear is a book by Debbi Gliori. This book is for children ages 2 or 3 years old.
I bought my copy in the local charity shop for a few pennies. You can buy it new for £8.99p. However Amazon has new copies available from £4.99 and used ones cheaper. This book was first published by Orchard books september1997.

This book is a good size to read to your child this hard cover book is 22x 22.6x1cm. It has 19 pages. The pages are a v thick paper/ v thin card

Are you sitting comfortably? Good now I will begin to tell you about this story.
In the first picture we see mummy bear pushing a pram up a hill towards a tree house, under another tree is Daddy bear with a news paper over his face. The newspaper is a flap of this paper / v thin card that you can lift up.
Daddy bear is snoozing under his news paper there are 7 words on top of the page “where oh where, is my baby bear?”

The book continues with daddy bear looking in a tree, in the rabbit’s house, in the reeds by the side of the pond, in the mole hole, behind the bushes. Each of the pages has a flap to lift and we see the appropiatte animal but no baby bear. Each double page has about 6 to 10 words on it.

Eventually we see Daddy bear at home saying to mummy bear “where oh where is baby bear”. Lift the flap of the kitchen curtains and mummy bear says look outside over there. And there is baby bear asleep in the pram under a tree. On the last page we see the family and the animals we found under the flaps in the book under the tree. Mummy bear is lying down with a pained exasperated look on her face. Daddy bear also lying down is holding baby bear above him in the air he is saying “Off course I knew where you were all the time!”

This book is good as it is repetitive children like repetition they can join in with you. The words are simple easy for baby to understand and good for early reading.
The illustrations are also good. Lovely colours greens, browns and a few brighter reds and yellows. They are simple, not fussy. Lovely expressions on the animals faces. I enjoy reading this book and my grandchildren enjoy listening and looking at the pictures.

Debbi Gliori is an award winning author illustrator she has written/illustrated many books for children. I enjoy reading her books to children in my care. Do read to your child please start them on the route to reading and enjoying books. Mary

Summary: A book for pre readers