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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 32 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR); Brdbk edition (September 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805047905
ISBN-13: 978-0805047905
For this week's Baby/Toddler/Preschool selection, I'm bringing you a favorite in our house. Well, anything by Eric Carle seems to be a favorite in our house. My daughter is fascinated by his colorful tissue paper collages and loves to touch (smack) the illustrations.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? features full spreads of colorful animals with the repetitive text:
"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? I see a red bird looking at me.
Red Bird, Red Bird, What Do You See? I see a yellow duck looking at me."
This repetition lets kids know what to expect, and soon they'll be "reading" along themselves. They'll also laugh at the idea of a purple cat and a blue horse. The white dog in the book looks enough like our own white dog to keep my daughter flipping to the page in the book and staring first at it and then at odog.
This book is great for babies who are just starting to recognize colors and shapes, and it's a great book to introduce toddlers and preschoolers to color words and animal words.
Check
out this site for a variety of great activities you do with the book.
....and buy a pick-up, take it down to LA".
OK, so I know it's not a pick-up but there's a few of reasons why I had to use this title. I've been listening to Harvest by Neil Young all week. A classic album to go with this classic camper van. This is one of my all time favourite openings to a song. Actually, not only is it the opening to the song but to the whole album. I hear those words and get tingles. In my life I've always felt this way. Like packing it all in, buying a pick-up and heading for the refuge of the roads. I've never been able to shake that feeling off. Ole Neil, bugger Lynyrd Skynyrd, I need you around.
I'm going away for a few days too, so actually I am taking to the road (I'm not going to LA though). Don't know if' I'll get a chance to post much this week but hopefully I'll get some drawing done.
Finally, a few weeks ago an old friend found me through Facebook. We'd lost touch and not seen each other for about 10 years. I told her that I wasn't the old hippy she known back then, I'd really changed. Hmmm. She didn't believe a word of it and after this post I kind of think she may be right!
Ooops, I haven't quite finished yet! It's a bit of a rubbishy drawing but my first vehicle. Inspired by France Belleville (I wasn't brave enough to do a side view - it's the wheels that scare me off drawing cars) who coincidentally made this post yesterday; Neil.
Cheers everyone, see you when I get back to town.
I was cleaning out the car the other day - well, I say 'cleaning out' actually all I did was gather these tapes together - which got me reminiscing. I think I probably spent the entire of my teenage years compiling play lists on cassettes. I loved making compilations, always trying to get all of my very favourite tracks onto one tape. But favourites come and go just like lovers and styles of clothes (sorry, I had to do it. I had been working up to that line) and, of course, the way we listen to our music. I am sad to let go of some of these old friends but we've come to the end of the road. It's over.
Actually I may just keep them for a little longer, could probably get at least one more drawing from them!
(I'm using this one for Everyday Matters challenge #61, draw a grouping of similar objects.)
There's also a great site with videos here: http://brownbearandfriends.com
Anon--oooh...Very nice! Thanks so much for sharing the link!
All three of my children loved these books. I have wonderful memories reading these to them.
Hip Writer Mama,
Thanks so much for visiting, and I think it's great that this book has created such wonderful memories of reading with your child.