Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School (Little Brown Bear, 2) - Hardcover

Dyer, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316196851 ISBN 13: 9780316196857

Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2003

Synopsis

Little Brown Bear does not want to go to school, so he decides to look for a job in town, but on the way he passes his school and looks in the window to see his busy classmates, and goes inside after all.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Dyer is the acclaimed illustrator of her own anthology, Animal Crackers, as well as the bestselling picture book I Love You Like Crazy Cakes by Rose Lewis. Jane Dyer lives in western Massachusetts and paints her extraordinary watercolors in a beautiful sun-drenched studio.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1-In this worthy successor to Dyer's Little Brown Bear Won't Take a Nap! (Little, Brown, 2002), the protagonist stubbornly announces at breakfast, "I won't go to school." Mama and Papa Bear sensibly respond that just as they have to go to work, his job is to go to school, and they drop him off at the schoolhouse door. The cub has other ideas, however, and slips away to sample some other "real" jobs, from waiting tables at a diner (he can't write down the orders) to cutting hair at a barbershop (a grouchy lion is none-too-pleased with the results of his trim). He finally runs back to school, where he gazes longingly through the window at his busy classmates. "That looks like fun," he thinks, as he tiptoes inside, and finds that his teacher has a reassuring, just-right job for him. Dyer's generously sized, softly colored watercolor illustrations are tantalizingly full of detail, like syrup dripping over stacks of delectable blueberry pancakes. The anthropomorphized characters are endearingly realistic, as in a large portrait of an angry pig in chef's garb. An entertaining antidote for starting-school blues.
Mary Ann Carcich, Hampton Bays Public Library, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0316196851
• ISBN 13: 9780316196857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32