School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-This follow-up to Baby Bear's Chairs (Harcourt, 2005) is a sweetly illustrated poem about a cub's passion for books. Baby Bear loves to be read to, and from morning until bedtime, he convinces a loved one to share a tale or two. He and his ever-present stuffed bee listen with rapt attention, and sometimes he returns the favor by "reading" a wordless book aloud. Rhyming couplets reveal a day in the life of this much-cherished cub as his parents and older brother indulge his delight in the written word. Mixed-media and collage illustrations create a warm and comfortable world filled with honey gathering, fishing, eating, and relaxing, pastimes that are all accompanied by books. Plaids, checks, stripes, and polka dots decorate the clothing and household of this happy family. Piled-up volumes are found on tabletops, the front porch, shelves, and even the hammock. The charming double-page pictures are large enough to share with groups, and the rhymes will engage listeners.-Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
After feeling that the "great big bears" got all the advantages in Baby Bear's Chairs, the preschooler cub hero celebrates the joy of words in Baby Bear's Books by Jane Yolen, illus. by Melissa Sweet. In the course of a day, he bounces to a "wild book," chimes in with the words he knows in other books, and reads "only pictures" to his brother; books play a role at mealtimes, bathtime and bedtime. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
