The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends

Tell you the truth, I really am not a fan of the paperback B. Bears. I find them too long, too wordy, and, really, too moralistic.

My nieces adore them, though, so I added a star for that, and I keep buying them. (I'm a sucker, really.)

This is a great example of the books. New cub moves into the

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neighborhood, Sister and Lizzy become fast friends (and why does everybody in this series get a real name except for the main characters?), they fight over something silly, and eventually learn to compromise and share. Aw.

Great moral message, but kinda boring story.

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First or second grade level. This book teaches children how to play together and how to be nice when someone pesters you. This book would help a lot of children with making new friends and being nice to the ones they already have. This book would be great to plan a sharing activity around.

Friends do not always get along and this book can help any child learn to understand that. I think that the authors, Stan and Jan Berenstain, do a great job in setting a real-life scenario of misunderstandings and conflict between friends but they also resolve the issue in a great way. The problem

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that arises is something that occurs everyday between children, not knowing how to stop saying things that could hurt others or how to share properly. I think that this book is a great book to teach children what not to say during an argument. For example, Sister Bear is playing with her friend Lizzy and while she is storming out of Lizzy's house to go home she says to Lizzy, "'Lizzy Lizzy in a tizzy!'". Those words, or words just like it, are more than likely being said between friends of a young age. The resolution shows how Lizzy comes over and gives Sister Bear a teddy bear that Sister left behind when she stormed out. The two young girls decide that they are okay and decide to take turns in playing teacher. Every child should learn how to resolve their conflicts in a calm and mannered way. The two girls resolved it with a smile and a hug, which should be how every conflict should be done.

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I really enjoyed this book. There are many Berenstain Bear books, so the readers can really begin to connect to the characters. The illustrations are great. Each picture is very colorful and detailed. The illustrator often uses multiple frames in one page when there is a lot going on. One thing I

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really liked about this story is that Sister Bear was complaining that Lizzy was bossy, which is the same thing Brother thought about Sister. The message of this book is that you should learn to take turns with your friends, and respect them, because it’s not fun to be lonely.

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