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Summary: JUST OK
Review: AGAIN I AM AMAZED AT YET ANOTHER SO-SO BOOK GETTING SUCH HIGH REVIEWS. THE ILLUSTRATIONS WERE VERY CUTE, BUT THE STORY WAS SO BORING. I RECOMMEND CLOSE YOUR EYES, KING BIDGOODS IN THE BATHTUB, I LOVE YOU STINKY FACE OR THE GRUFFALO.
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Summary: Sweet dreams!
Review: First of all, my family loves all books by Mem Fox. She is just a gifted author. And Sleepy Bears is one of those that I love to read as much as my almost 3-year old and almost 6-year old love to listen to. Kerry Argent's illustrations are wonderful. One of those bedtime stories that are a must have for your library.
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Summary: Sweet dreams!
Review: I purchased this book because I love Mem Fox's stories. My daughter wanted the book because she has a love for teddy bears. She is 3. I wanted to get her a nice story of a bear for bedtime. I hit the jackpot! I read the book and realized that this mother bear is not struggling with a bedtime routine to get the kids into bed. I also realized that the kids are not denying the fact that they are tired. We can all learn from this mother bear that to tell a story with the kids in it as the star is better than anything! It is a wonderful way to get kids and parents to use their imaginations to send them to a place for sweet dreams. This is a winner of a book and my daughter is going to love it!
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Summary: One of our favorites!
Review: I'm a collector of children's books, and this one of my family's favorites. It is the story of a mother bear telling goodnight rhymes to each of her children before they hibernate for the winter. Each child gets their own rhyme in tune with their personality. The book has a "quiet" tone that is perfect in setting a bedtime mood.
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Summary: Sleepy TIme!
Review: MY (ALMOST) 3 YEAR OLD RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS A GIFT AND WE BOTH ENJOY READING IT AT BEDTIME. A MOTHER BEAR EASES HER SIX LITTLE BEAR CUBS INTO SLEEP WITH THEIR OWN SPECIAL RHYMES. EACH BEAR SEEMS TO FALL ASLEEP WITH ITS OWN DREAM ALREADY STAGED. EACH BEAR'S STORY DOES RHYME BUT EACH IS SKILLFULLY SEPARATED FROM THE NEXT.THE WHOLE BOOK FLOWS WELL AND IS EASY TO READ ALOUD. THE STORY IS LONG ENOUGH TO HELP MY LITTLE ONE GET SETTLED FOR BED, BUT HOLDS HIS INTEREST TO THE END. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE COLORFUL, WARM AND SWEET, AND COMPLIMENT THE TEXT VERY WELL. THIS BOOK IS BOUND TO BE ONE OF THOSE BEDTIME FAVORITES THAT GROWNUPS WONT MIND HAVING TO READ AGAIN AND AGAIN! THIS BOOK WAS A WONDERFUL GIFT.
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Summary: A WONDERFUL BEDTIME STORY
Review: MY (ALMOST) 3 YEAR OLD RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS A GIFT AND WE BOTH ENJOY READING IT AT BEDTIME. A MOTHER BEAR EASES HER SIX LITTLE BEAR CUBS INTO SLEEP WITH THEIR OWN SPECIAL RHYMES. EACH BEAR SEEMS TO FALL ASLEEP WITH ITS OWN DREAM ALREADY STAGED. EACH BEAR'S STORY DOES RHYME BUT EACH IS SKILLFULLY SEPARATED FROM THE NEXT.THE WHOLE BOOK FLOWS WELL AND IS EASY TO READ ALOUD. THE STORY IS LONG ENOUGH TO HELP MY LITTLE ONE GET SETTLED FOR BED, BUT HOLDS HIS INTEREST TO THE END. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE COLORFUL, WARM AND SWEET, AND COMPLIMENT THE TEXT VERY WELL. THIS BOOK IS BOUND TO BE ONE OF THOSE BEDTIME FAVORITES THAT GROWNUPS WONT MIND HAVING TO READ AGAIN AND AGAIN! THIS BOOK WAS A WONDERFUL GIFT.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: My kids just love it. My 3 year old calls it "The Cub Bears" book. He ask for it every night for story time. My 22 month old cries when it ends and so we must read it again and again until they fall asleep. Love it!
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: My kids just love it. My 3 year old calls it "The Cub Bears" book. He ask for it every night for story time. My 22 month old cries when it ends and so we must read it again and again until they fall asleep. Love it!
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Summary: Good Bedtime Story
Review: My son who is 4 years old, loves this book to be read to him at night. It lets him have a good night sleep and he imagines what the bears are dreaming and he even thinks up stories to add himself.
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Summary: A good get-ready-to-sleep book
Review: Sleepy Bears is a predictable story about Mother Bear and her six bear children getting into bed to hibernate for the winter. Mother Bear says goodnight to each of her cubs and suggests what she thinks each of them will dream about.Kerry Argent has beautifully illustrated the bears so that they look fuzzy enough to touch. The textured artwork of the "real" world is different from that of the dreams. The scenery and objects illustrated in the bear cubs' dreams is flatter looking, with little shading or color gradient. Argent has included a blue stuffed elephant in each non-dream illustration. It is on the title page, and then is held by one or another of the bear cubs throughout the book until the final page. Once everyone has fallen asleep, the stuffed elephant blows out the candle. This book is a perfect read-before-bed story, with it's peaceful illustrations and repetition of the line "Now who's the sleepiest? Who will be next?" Mem Fox may be Australian, but, with the exception of one word, the reader would never know this from reading Sleepy Bears. Only the use of the word "ices" to refer to a treat akin to snow cones indicates that the author is not an American.
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