We were at the Coquitlam Teddy Bears Picnic today and the kids were armed with their teddy bears, Star and Lewis, and a book each.
Maya had her favourite bear book "It's The Bear" by Jez Alborough which is a very fitting tale about a little boy going on a picnic with his Mum, but being scared of bears. Sure enough a big bear comes to join him but *spoiler alert * he his more interested in the blueberry pie. It is really well written and is full of catchy rhyming couplets so the kids can fill in the blanks. Every time I read it, I get caught up in it, never mind the kids. As written on the back 'the suspense is just scary enough for preschoolers' as the boy hides in the picnic hamper.
Liam had his chosen bear book "Bears on Wheels" by Stan and Jan Berenstein (who have written over 300 Berenstein Bear books). This one starts and ends with one bear on one wheel (picture a bear on a unicycle) and has many combinations in between, including twenty-one on none as all the bears topple off their cycles. This is such a great book for us as Liam can read it already, it is so memorable and easily worked out from the pictures if he forgets, and because Maya can begin to point and count the wheels and the bears.
We enjoyed our picnic and then the kids joined in with Mr I and the Rainbow Singers.
The bears stayed away today, but we did see this one in the woods last week:
He may have been a bit too close for comfort, but hopefully he would have only been interested in Blueberry Pie.
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