Picture Books About Bears

What list of bear stories would be complete with at least one version of The Three Bears. Although there are many excellent renditions of this fairy tale, (James Marshall and Jim Aylesworth both come to mind), I think that the illustrations in Jan Brett's book make hers my favorite. The story is the classic retelling, but the illustrations are awesome. There is so much detail, like the embroidery in the costumes and the furniture carved with birds, bears, and flowers. The borders around each page have additional commentary and foreshadowing, as well as another story about some mice. This book is a must have!

This delightful rhyming story is about the animals of the forest enjoying berries from the blackberry bush. A mouse, a bluebird, a squirrel, a fox, and a deer are all having a great time until a chubby bear arrives and frightens them all away to take the feast for himself. But the animals get the last laugh as bluebird swoops down and grabs the last blackberry right out of bear's paw. Although the animals are realistic, their facial expressions bring humor to the story. At the end of the book, there is a section with educational information as well as a recipe for a blackberry smoothie. Yum!

This is a great book to use with younger children to teach them about hibernation and the changing seasons. Bear, who is in his first year, is delighted with all the trees, butterflies, and flowers. But then the leaves start to change colors and fall from the trees and he begins to worry as he tries his best to replace the leaves. But then instinct overcomes him and he gathers up some leaves, crawls in his den, and hibernates for the winter. When he awakens in the spring, he is delighted and relived to see new leaves on his trees. The illustrations are wonderfully simple and done with a bamboo pen in watercolor. Children will as delighted as bear is in this story.

This African-American retelling of the story has some special parts that I really like. When Leola, the Goldilocks character, runs off and gets lost in the woods and is accosted by a scary weasel, she ends up a the inn run by the three bears. Of course, no one is home and she helps herself. My students love the repeating line in the story, where she says, "I know my Grandmama said, `Never help yourself in folks' kitchens until first being politely asked,' but I don't think she'd mind this time." The story has a happy ending as the bears are kindly, and mother bear packs her a basket of goodies and sends her home with an escort.

Treasure is not only a story about bears, but it is a wonderful story about friendship. Bear and Goose are an enduring odd couple, with Bear being the quiet reflective part of the pair and Goose being ever-impulsive. The story starts with Bear getting ready for a quiet game of Tic-Tac-Toe, but when Goose comes in and spots the X on the page, he immediately jumps to the conclusion that this is a treasure map. After a day of digging and searching, a disappointed Goose finds no treasure. Bear reminds Goose that the treasure is their friendship and terrific day they have had together. Great story for the younger set!

Karma Wilson first introduced Bear and his friends in Bear Snores On. In this fourth installment about Bear, he starts out one summer day to go to the swimming hole and hears something rustle in the tree above him. He thinks it might be one of his friends, but as each friend shows up, he can't decide who it is. The refrain "And the Bear asks, `Who?'" give the readers a clue. It turns out to be owl who Bear and his friends quickly invite to be their new friend. This rhyming book is a fun read aloud.

If you're looking for a book to make "the new kid" feel better, this is a good one. When Miss Cluck announces they have a new bear to join the class, the students imagine what he will look like. When Boris comes, they decide he is not what they thought, but a "hairy, scary grizzly bear", and no one want to be his friend. After a very lonely day, Boris comes upon his classmates on the way home being bullied by the mean rat pack, and manages to scare them off with his toothy grin. The next day at school, he is a hero and everyone wants to be his friend. A happy ending to a delightful story.

This funny book is obviously a trickster tale with Bear and Rabbit perhaps contemporary cousins of the famous Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit. Lazy Bear and energetic Rabbit strike a gardening partnership, but Rabbit manages to trick Bear every time. Rabbit offers to let Bear pick which part of the crop he wants, "tops or bottoms", but when Bear picks tops, then Rabbit plants root vegetables, and when he chooses bottoms, Rabbit plants corn. The book opens from top to bottom instead of the traditional side to side, following the theme of the story and making it a wonderful read aloud. The kids never get tired of the tricky Rabbit!

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