Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies


Book Description

All the students in the class are assigned reading buddies, except for Adelaide. She already has one, a bear! And Adelaide is quite persuasive as she explains to her language arts teacher, Mrs. Fitz-Pea, and the reader, that bears really do make the best reading buddies: they sniff out good books and their claws are just right for turning pages. And the bear looks rather friendly (and studious) in these crayon-bright, contemporary illustrations, making this is must-read picture book for story time!




Bears Make the Best Reading Buddies


Book Description

Adelaide explains to her teacher why bears make the best reading buddies.




Baby Bear's Not Hibernating


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A black bear cub decides to spend the winter with his friends Moose, Owl, and Hare rather than hibernating, but soon his watchful father must rescue him. Includes facts about black bears.




Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!


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OF COURSE you think Goldilocks was a brat who broke in and trashed our house. You don't know the other side of the story. Well, let me tell you...




Follow that Bear If You Dare!


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When going on a hunt to find a bear, you need to take the utmost care. It's best to take a friend along too; choose one that looks much fatter than you! Hare LOVES bears. And, he really wants to catch one, the biggest, hairiest, scariest one he can find. He buys a bear-hunting book. But every successful bear hunt requires two rabbits, and so he asks a friend to join him. And off the rabbits go on their very own scary, hairy adventure. The charming cadence of this funny book will have children asking to hear it again and again. From the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Me and My Dad!




Bears Make the Best Math Buddies


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Adelaide and Bear have tackled reading together, and now they are tackling math. Adelaide stands up for her best friend and his many talents, but will she convince her teacher to let Bear be her math buddy?




Where the Best Stories Hide


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That little boy sure had something to say with scribbles and squiggles and crayons that day! He knew every squiggle would soon tell a tale--this scrawl was a bird, and that loop was a whale . . . Nicholas has a big box of crayons and an even bigger imagination! One day in school, he doodles his way into trouble when his teacher catches him scribbling and coloring outside the lines of his coloring book. Challenged to explain his stories, Nicholas takes a dash of creativity and a dab of courage to wow the whole class and prove that the best stories sometimes hide outside the lines. Perfect for irrepressible creatives of all ages, Where the Best Stories Hide will inspire young artists of every stripe to bravely fill the world with color.




Bears Make the Best Writing Buddies


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Adelaide loves writing. Bear loves writing. But Theo does NOT love writing. Thankfully, Adelaide and Bear are ready to team up and persuade the entire class, including Mrs. Fitz-Pea, that Bears make the best writing buddies. After all, who better to teach you how to fish and forage for new ideas than a bear? This third picture book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best...series is sure to encourage even the most reluctant writer to write a story.




The Twilight Library


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Oliver and Lora have created an homage to the ability of words to paint pictures in the imagination more powerful than anything the real world holds. – School Library Journal Snuggle up for a story that’s sure to captivate your senses! There’s a special place deep in the heart of the wilderness where the creatures of the night gather—where everyone wants to go—where the Night Librarian spins a tale of mystery. Fireflies, nighthawks, bats, mice, and brightly colored beetles make themselves comfortable on the forest floor as the Night Librarian transports them into the land of imagination with her silver silken stories. From feasts of tangy berries and salty seeds, to honey comb hives and whisker kisses, to the scent of evergreens, crashing waves of blue oceans, and echoing canyons, Carmen Oliver’s lyrical text and Miren Asiain Lora’s ethereal art is sure to evoke your senses and send you into dreamland to spin stories of your own.




Nothing But Trouble


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Poor Maisie! What a day she's having. From the moment she oped her eyes in the morning there seemed to be nothing but trouble.