The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Book - Hardcover

Yolen, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152009329 ISBN 13: 9780152009328

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1995

Synopsis

Goldie Locks and her three bear friends accompany young readers on a tour of the holidays throughout the year, introducing fifteen holidays and their fun traditions with descriptive, rhyming verse.

About this title

About the Authors

Jane Yolen is a highly acclaimed children's author who has written hundreds of books for adults and children and has won numerous awards. She and her husband divide their time between Massachussetts and Scotland.

 

 

JANE DYER has illustrated many well-loved picture books, including Move Over, Rover!, a Geisel Honor Book written by Karen Beaumont; Oh My Baby, Little One, an ABA Pick of the Lists and Parent's Choice Recommended Book written by Kathi Appelt; and the bestselling classic Time for Bed by Mem Fox. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 2?Baby Bear, joined by Mother, Father, or their friend Goldilocks, celebrates 15 special days throughout the year. Each occasion is featured in a splendid two-page watercolor illustration with a short poem honoring the event. Readers will enjoy the rich images filled with plenty of detail to carry the eye from corner to corner and back, with a bit of humor or small surprise tucked inside. Inventive use of white space results in pages that are full but never cluttered. Harder to find holidays such as Arbor Day, Groundhog Day, and Labor Day are included along with Mother's and Father's Days, Earth Day, Chanukah, and May Day. The poetry highlights simple pleasures, happy imagery, and loving relationships. A fine addition that youngsters will come back to again and again.?Virginia E. Jeschelnig, Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library, Willowick, OH
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The bear family introduced in Yolen's and Dyer's Baby Bear's Bedtime Book and The Three Bears Rhyme Book return in rhyming poems celebrating 15 holidays. Written primarily in the voice of Baby Bear, Yolen's short, bouncy verses can be humorous and endearing, although they occasionally succumb to the precious. Consistently engaging are Dyer's buoyant watercolors, which include lavish full-page pictures as well as inventive background patterns and borders to frame the text. Gracefully conveying the changing seasons, Dyer's art also captures the spunk of its bruin protagonists?especially the cub on the final page, who celebrates that top-rated holiday, the birthday. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ages 4^-7. A charming book of poetry featuring the Three Bears (and Goldilocks, of course), this celebrates 15 holidays throughout the year. Yolen's well-rounded choice of holidays includes Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day as well as some lesser-known ones such as Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Groundhog Day. Fun for lap sharing, the poems will also be of value to teachers. Used in conjunction with science units--for example, Earth Day in a unit on the environment--they can provide an entertaining, easy way to integrate literature across the curriculum. Dyer's watercolor illustrations are cheerful and bright, and professionals looking for ways to decorate their libraries and classrooms will be happy to learn that eight of the poems and accompanying illustrations are available as posters. Lauren Peterson

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0152009329
• ISBN 13: 9780152009328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dyer Jane
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32