Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Brown Bear and Friends) - Hardcover

Martin, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805090959 ISBN 13: 9780805090956

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, 2012

Synopsis

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?

Lots of noise!

Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book--look at the last page!

Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children's education and children's illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a bestseller) shows two masters at their best.

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Review:

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear? is a classic picture book that will delight young children. It has a simple repetitive text that makes it easy for young readers to join in. Eric Carle beautifully illustrates this book, with bold and colourful pictures of animals.

The book follows a similar format to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? The reader is introduced to a new animal on each double-page spread. This is an excellent book for developing children's prediction skills as they will really enjoy predicting which animal will be heard next. This book would also be good for introducing the use of question marks, as each double page includes a question and an answer. Interesting vocabulary is used to describe the noises made by the animals which will challenge a young reader eg: "braying, trumpeting, snarling" etc.

This book is an absolute must for children aged 3-5, but will be enjoyed by children aged 0-7. If your child enjoyed Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see? they are sure to enjoy this book just as much. --Amanda York

Review:

"Teachers will smile with delight when they see this wonderful book, and students are sure to utter the familiar request, 'Have you got another one like this one?'"--"School Library Journal", starred review

"A splendid successor to "Brown Bear"."--"Publishers Weekly"

Teachers will smile with delight when they see this wonderful book, and students are sure to utter the familiar request, 'Have you got another one like this one?' "School Library Journal, starred review"

A splendid successor to "Brown Bear." "Publishers Weekly""

"Teachers will smile with delight when they see this wonderful book, and students are sure to utter the familiar request, 'Have you got another one like this one?'" --School Library Journal, starred review

"A splendid successor to Brown Bear." --Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0805090959
• ISBN 13: 9780805090956
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 28
• Illustrator: Carle Eric