Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

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This timeless and well-loved story is exquisitely brought to life in a special Mini Pop-Up Classic edition, making it the perfect gift and a book to treasure, time and time again. They had clearly read it before numerous times because the repetition throughout meant they also read it aloud along with me! It will make them laugh as well as allowing them to do choral reading as Little Bear constantly repeats the same phrase every time he complains about the dark! It also, in my opinion, brings with it a sense of reassurance to young children as a fear of the dark is quite common at a young age. The book also made the children laugh and they identified the repetition which they enjoyed joining in with.

This is a story about a little bear that is afraid of the dark, yet overcomes this fear with the help of Big Bear, a portrayal similar to parent and child and hence easy to relate to the comfort sought and the comfort given. The children will easily be able to understand the plot of the story and will look forward to finding out Big Bear's solution to curing the darkness so that Little Bear can finally go to sleep in one peace! However, even if you havent had a horrendous and dramatic birth experience it’s still a very sweet and funny book and I highly recommend it as a bedtime story. They are also shaped like windows so that the reader is almost looking into this new world where the bears live. The book also contains a lot of inverted commas so it could be used as an example for teaching those in grammar.

For example we have two toy bears that we introduce to them at the beginning of the story who they get to cuddle and get a sense of their two sizes (bigger for big bear etc…), we then give them each a small teddy bear who they cuddle up in a blanket.

This book does wonders for dispelling the fear of the dark as well as for encouraging the patience of parents everywhere. I really enjoyed this gentle tale (that is not without humor) about Little Bear who can't get to sleep because of his fear of the dark, and patient and resourceful Big Bear who helps him through his fears (even though Big Bear has a very exciting part of his book to read and keeps getting interrupted!Big Bear and Little Bear - "Big Bear is the big bear, and Little Bear is the little bear," the narrator informs us, in one of those dead-pan asides that I always find irresistibly hilarious - settle in for the night in this charming bedtime story about being afraid of the dark. I will have this on display for sure; if I can't find other things to use, then I will opt to read this one.