I Don't Care Said Big Bear

This predictable book had a cumulative story line. Fist, it introduce the "moose on the loose". Then it said there was a "bad-tempered goose" and so on, until on the last page it repeated the moose, goose as well as a pig, snake and wolf. While the bear was walking a "teeny-weeny" mouse was telling......more

I read this book to my children, two boys, over 20 years ago, but now find myself remembering the joy of such a simple story, I was able to read aloud with such drama, that they were variously enthralled, fascinated and a teeny bit frightened, but only safely so. I still find myself walking around s......more

We follow the adventure of a bear and a teeny-weeny mouse throughout a snow covered setting. The mouse warns the bear of various animals in the book, to which the bear replies: " 'I don't care,' said the bear with his nose in the air. " A great book on sequencing, predicting the next page, and how a......more

A repeating story (like The Old Woman Who Swallowed the Fly) about a little mouse trying to scare a bear with all sorts of different animals. In the end, it's the mouse who's the one that gets to the bear! Asher (5 years old) reads this story aloud to Dex (2 years old). Very cute. Fun, silly illustra......more

This book is great for teaching ending sounds; especially -are and -ear words. This is also a great sequencing book because there is a multitude of animals that all interact with the bear in the same way: remembering the order of the animals, etc.......more