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A Story for Bear
A Story for Bear
A Story for Bear
Audiobook12 minutes

A Story for Bear

Written by Dennis Haseley

Narrated by Richard Poe

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

ABA Pick of the Lists author Dennis Haseley pens this touching tale about the joys of reading aloud. A young bear, watching a woman read one summer day, wonders how words in a book make her laugh. As his curiosity draws him closer, she offers to read aloud for him. He listens intently while she reads book after book. O how he loves the soothing sound of her voice! But one fall day, she is gone. And how will he ever bear her absence?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 20, 2009
ISBN9781440716980
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I loved this one to bits. The story got me in the feels (despite its improbability), and the illustrations are *gorgeous*. There are several pages here I would love to have prints of to hang on my walls.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A Story for Bear is a beautiful story about a young bear who finds a mysterious paper with tiny marks on it. He decides to bring it back to his cave. Years later the bear wondered from his cave and sees a woman with a strange square thing. He wasn't sure what she was looking at and why it was bring her so much joy, but it calmed him. The story goes to show us the power and joy of reading relationships. There is a sweet connection between the mysterious paper and the woman.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Summary: There was a young bear who has been wandering through the woods and found a piece of paper. The bear grew up and grew more curious about the paper that he found as a cub. The older bear was wandering around when he found a woman reading a book outside of the house. Everyday the bear returned to this same spot and everyday the woman was there reading another book. She left a book outside one day and the bear curiously looked through it as the woman came back outside and offered for the bear to stay. They grew a friendship together, the woman and the bear, and as she read to the bear he began to trust her, so bear brought her the paper he had kept all of those years. Their friendship grew and grew and one day he came to the house and she had left, but left him her memories through books. Review: Haseley writes an amazing and heartfelt story that circles around the message that friends come and go, but our love for them remains the same. In this story bear grows an unusual relationship with a woman who lives in a cabin in the woods. The friendship began when the woman did not turn bear away because he was a bear; she said "Come here. Come here, bear" (p.11). The woman loved bear and wanted to share her love of reading with him. Bear would come everyday to listen to the woman read. One day when bear came and the woman wasn't there, he became quite sad. He walked around her cabin and then realized that she left him a present; all of her books! Bear took this as a sign that she would always remember him. At the end of the story the woman eventually came back in the spring, but this shows that a friendship can fade during certain times and be rekindled.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved, loved, loved this book. It was a quiet, soothing, perfect story of a bear and a wman who read to him. I was tearing up when she went home for the winter and left all of her books on the blanket for him. I remember thinking what a powerful book that could be in the hands of a person advocating the power of parents reading to their children. The bear's pleasure with the words despite not understanding what they meant sums up the experience perfectly: that it's about more than just the excitement of the story. It's the experience o being read to. I loved this book. It was one of the books that just bowled me over when I read it. I want to cultivate in children the kind of joy that the bear took from being read to. If you read with your heart, this story will make you cry, but won't leave you sad. I can't say enough about it. How wonderful!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    "A Story for Bear" is a nice story about a bear who meets up with a lady who lives in a near by cabin daily to have her read books aloud. Bear loves hearing the books read aloud, but unfortunately the lady eventually leaves her cabin. However, she does leave books behind for the bear to keep. Bear is happy to have the books and takes good care of them. To keep this story interesting for students I would like to have a lot of prediction and discussion while reading. I could ask, "Do you think bear understands the stories the lady is reading?" and "What makes you think that?" I would like to have students really thinking through out this book because it is a little vague. It would be fun to dig deeper into the story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed A Story For Bear. It told the story of how a woman read to a curious bear. The woman and the bear quickly form a friendship, and she reads to him everyday. I thought it was really sweet that the woman left the bear all of her books when she went home for the winter. I found the author's tone very soothing and mellow. The illistrations were beautiful. The theme of friendship was greatly illistrated in this story, and I would definitely read it to my class.