Orange, pear, apple, bear

This book is an early concept book about counting and colors and things and is fun and easy to read. The illustrations make the book wonderful though. The watercolors fit the story perfectly, showing of the fun colors and lending themselves to the sketchy outlines of fruit and bear alike. Even the

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plain round orange gains character with the illustration and the bear is comical and engaging with thoughtful illustrations to accompany his pearness or appleness. I can see why this book became a favorite.

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By repeating the same five words, the images of these words will stick in children's minds and they will be able to recall them later. I like the simple images against a white background. This enables the child to get a clear view of each image. This book was meant for very young children and I

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like that the illustrations are simple and not complex.

You could bring in the objects from the book, the pear, apple, orange and bear. By recreating the book with the objects, students can visually see and touch what is going on in the story. This will also help to reinforce what each of these objects are.

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With only five words, this book explores the concept of categories and qualities while telling a story about a bear playing with some fruit.

The art in this book is amazing. Each lovingly rendered fruit is just beautiful, and the bear, though silent, has a lot of personality. As for the text -- it's

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incredible how much slight variations in order and position of the same words can convey. There's a big difference between "apple, bear" and "apple bear" -- the latter being a bear that looks an awful lot like an apple. This book is a gem.

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Explores concepts of color, shape, and food using only five simple words, as a bear juggles and plays.

Gravett does an incredible job writing and illustrating this whimisical story. Using five simple words, she uses each with such ease and intent. While bear plays and juggles, each fruit, color, and shape are arranged differently on every page. I enjoyed when bear actually become the shapes of the

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fruit themselves.

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This book is clever and the simple illustrations are a delight.

A nice, simple, easy-reading picture book. The four nouns from the title are arranged all possible ways with sketchings to go along with the text. It would be fun to share with a young child.

This book is a fun, witty way to play with vocabulary as well as concepts of color and shape. The author creates a delightful story using only 5 simple words and simple, playful illustrations. With minimal text and charming watercolor illustrations, the author explores different combinations. In

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short, Orange Pear Apple Bear is a great book for kids. It is a lot of fun and a great book to use about blending words.

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This book is simple and easy to understand. It is very basic and suitable for ages 3-6. I liked the originality of the different ways to connect orange, with pear, with apple, and bear.

This is a good picture book for students to learn short words and how to understand pictures to understand the story. This story only has four words which are used to describes the bears encounter with some fresh produce. There are beautiful iconic watercolor images against crisp white backgrounds.

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The fruit looks good enough to eat! This is a cute and beautiful book!

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This was another creative book that was written for children using only four words.

A simple zen reading. Orange, pear, and apple are repeated, bear takes on their shape. Great for early readers to develop skills, visual ability. A sweet, gentle book, may also be useful as a transition to nap/quiet time.

This simple picture book uses the words in the title and plays around to make different combinations. The watercolor illustrations are nice and simple to accompany the text.

This was one of my favorite books. It teaches four words - orange, pear, apple, bear.

it was a fairly simple book but i enjoyed reading about the orange, the pear, the apple and the bear. the words worked well with the pictures. i think that the simplicity of it all made it work well, if there had been more words or more pictures things would have felt smooth. the coloring seem to

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go perfect as well, if brighter colors had been used it definitly wouldnt have worked.

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As the book states in the cover there are only 5 words used in the book. The book has beautiful pictures and is great for young children learning their words and colors. My one complaint is in the illustrations the pear and the apple look too much alike and can confuse the young learner.

A very simple book done in an elegant way. The author and illustrator show how words can have different meanings. Pear can be fruit or a shape. Orange can be a fruit or a color and so on.

I really liked how this book managed to make a whole book out of using just a orange, pear, apple, and bear. The author basically just combined every aspect of those products and animal to make a fun little educational book about fruit. Very original, I'e never read anything like it..so far. The

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art was simple, as the story was simple, but it really connected with the storyline and did justice to it. I liked it a lot...especially yhe "pear bear" page!! makes me a little hungry.

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Wonderful book. I laugh at the comma lessons- the different ways the four words in the title can be combined. My daughter laughs at the silly pictures (have you ever seen a Pear Bear? it's pretty funny!). Would love to use in class to teach the importance of comma use.

The perfect picture-book selection for toddlers, Emily Gravett's Orange Pear Apple Bear takes four words (the ones in the title), some adorable illustrations, and an innovative approach to storytelling, and delivers a book that is both informative and entertaining. Without ever seeming to teach,

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the narrative demonstrates how meaning can change, simply by switching around the order of the words, and the punctuation used to separate them. Thus "Orange Bear" gives us an orange bear, but "Orange, Bear," gives us our ursine friend consuming a citrus treat.

The 'lesson' here is conveyed simply, without any fanfare - young readers probably won't even notice that there is a lesson - making it the ideal concept book for the very young. The artwork (watercolor, I think?) is cute - I loved the apple and pear-shaped bear butts! (because obviously toddlers aren't the only ones at the right maturity level for this one) - and the painting to page ratio isn't overwhelming (lots of blank page), giving this a very 'clean' and simple feeling. Recommended to anyone looking for creative picture-books for the younger set, and to Emily Gravett fans.

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A whole picture book using only 5 words ("there" on the very last page!) Cool idea and the book actually works.

Deceptively simple rearrangements of the four title words, with beautiful cozy illustrations.

With the use of only five words, Emily Gravett tells a delightful tale early readers will love. The story line is quite simple and the pictures are too, but together they work out perfectly. Early readers will have the opportunity to learn a few small words and make connections between them by

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looking at the illustrations.

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a wonderful play on very simple words orange pear apple bear, very good for early readers. Simple but fun illustrations.