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Summary: The bare necessities (ho ho!)
Review: For those cave dwellers amongst you who've finally crept out of your hermit-like existences to gain a little knowledge about the wide world of children's picture books, the name "Eric Carle" will be unknown to you. For everyone else in the universe, however, Mr. Carle is undoubtedly one of the best known illustrators of the Western world. The father of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and the more recent "Slowly Slowly Slowly Said the Sloth", his earlier work, "Brown Bear", is a sweet simple storyline that remains timeless.In this story, different animal characters, cut cleverly from a dazzling array of colored papers, tell the viewer what it is that they see. The cat sees a dog, the dog sees a sheep, the sheep sees a goldfish, etc. Now when I said this story was timeless, I wasn't kidding. Honestly, I'm having a great deal of difficulty finding ANYTHING about this story that's going to date it in one or two hundred years down the road. Originally published in 1967, the book is particularly impressive because of the shot of children it cuts to towards the end. Suddenly the viewer is observing kids of a myriad of races and skin tones. In 1967. And these are not your white-kids-painted-brown type pictures either. And they're not all just black or white! There's the most surprising thing of all, to my mind. In an age when illustrators were having a devil of a time remembering to even include black kids in the occasional book, here we have a book that is including everything from Asian to Native American children, front and center. On a completely unrelated side-note, the mother in this book bears a striking resemblance to a LOT of very hip mommies these days. From her dark rimmed Harry Potteresque glasses to her well coiffed hair, this is a mother on the go. To be perfectly blunt, I'm not an Eric Carle fan. He bores me, and I have distinct memories of finding "The Hungry Caterpillar" annoying as a child. But at the same time I'm having a lot of difficulty finding anything at all wrong with this book. It's not the most exciting picture book on the market today. It will not grab you, necessarily. It doesn't demand the spotlight or find itself in intellectual discussions about the nature of animal representation for the pre-adolescent set. It's just a good book with a nice plot and pretty pictures that teach kids about colors and animals. And doggone it, that's good enough for me.
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Summary: My son's favorite book
Review: This is my son's favorite book. The drawings reel him in every time. We have story time every night before bed and this is the first book that he grabs and also the last book that he grabs. He is now 14 months and can say each animals name in his own little way. I strongly urge every parent to get this book.
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Summary: another top notch childs book
Review: This is another top notch book along with his hungry caterpilarit will teach your child about colors along with some animals it is simple and easy to follow my daughter loves it
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Summary: A really great book for younger kids.
Review: I think this is a very good book. It has lots of things about it that it could teach kids such as colors and animals. I think that little kids would really like this book including the illistrationes which were also nice.
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Summary: Brown Bear
Review: This is a great book for teaching young children basic colors, and some animals. The illistrations are very good i think for that also, because the give detail but not too much. I think this would be a great book for pre-schoolers.
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Summary: Classic
Review: This book is a classic. With one animal per page solid backgrounds it grabs the attention of very young children. The repetition of animal names and colors between verses makes this a nice choice for ESL children of all ages. This is a book you won't mind reading and rereading to your children.
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Summary: MY SON LOVES THESE BOOKS
Review: I bought my son Panda Bear, Panda Bear What do you See? He is 20 mths and absolutely loves that book so I bought him the other ones in the series of books by Bill Martin & Eric Carle he loves them. He even names the animals now and makes the animal noises. These books are perfect. Teaches kids young the love of colors and animals.
Very Talented Children's Book Authors!
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Summary: My daughter loves this book
Review: My daughter loves this book and gets excited everytime it comes out. She likes the animals, colors, and rhymes. For me the book is rather repetative and I'd rather read something with a story. Still it is for her so I grin and take pleasure in her enjoyment.
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Summary: Twinkle, twinkle little star
Review: My son is two, and we were introduced to this book first at the music class. The teacher was singing the verses;"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? in the Twinkle, twinkle little star....adaptation", and from that point on we had to read/sing it every day. He did not have any interests in the books untill we found this one and he gets it himself and "reads/sings it". I realy recomend it.
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Summary: Terrific illustrations will have children begging to read it
Review: Brown Bear is a great book that teaches children about colors and rhyme. Any child, from age 2 on, will beg to read this book again and again. The illustrations are excellent in a unique way. The texture of each page's pictures provides an excellent companion to the teach-me-to-read text. You can't go wrong with this book for any youngster.
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