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Random House Books for Young Readers (1975), 48 pages
Description
The Bear family don their detective gear and try to solve the mystery of the missing prize pumpkin.
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LibraryThing member conuly
This isn't a "Moral Lesson" Berenstain Bears book, it's an early reader.
As you might expect, Papa Bear does everything wrong, and the kids find the pumpkin thief. It's a pretty light read even for a beginning reader - some of the rhymes are a bit forced, and Papa's wrongheadedness is a little
But the kids like it, and it is simple for a beginning reader, and that's the important thing.
As you might expect, Papa Bear does everything wrong, and the kids find the pumpkin thief. It's a pretty light read even for a beginning reader - some of the rhymes are a bit forced, and Papa's wrongheadedness is a little
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overexaggerated - attacking chickens?But the kids like it, and it is simple for a beginning reader, and that's the important thing.
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LibraryThing member begone
A classic mystery tale featuring the Bear Detectives and Papa Bear. Using rhyming text, Stan and Jan Berenstain provide clues in both the text and illustrations for young reading detectives to follow. Ask your child or student to make their own predictions after each clue for even more fun.
LibraryThing member David.Alfred.Sarkies
This is probably more comical than anything else because it is about a pumpkin that has gone missing and a group of young bears (using a detective handbook) and their father, using only his brain (or lack of it as one might suspect) go out in search of it. The problem is that because Papa Bear acts
I'm not really sure if there is any real moral in this story, because once again it seems to have moved beyond basic functions of language to create more of a story than anything else. Maybe the idea in this book is not to be like Papa Bear, who automatically jumps to conclusions without actually questioning the evidence and making a more thorough examination of the scene. In fact the whole idea of there actually being a thief turns out to be wrong, because the pumpkin was never stolen, just reallocated to another place to be used by one of the rightful owners.
As such, we when are out looking for things, or trying to solve a puzzle, we need to not jump to conclusions (like Papa bear) but rather examine all of the facts and from those facts reach the best (and hopefully correct) conclusion.
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before thinking he tends to get himself caught up in a lot of trouble (such as landing in a pig pen or getting bailed up in some hay).I'm not really sure if there is any real moral in this story, because once again it seems to have moved beyond basic functions of language to create more of a story than anything else. Maybe the idea in this book is not to be like Papa Bear, who automatically jumps to conclusions without actually questioning the evidence and making a more thorough examination of the scene. In fact the whole idea of there actually being a thief turns out to be wrong, because the pumpkin was never stolen, just reallocated to another place to be used by one of the rightful owners.
As such, we when are out looking for things, or trying to solve a puzzle, we need to not jump to conclusions (like Papa bear) but rather examine all of the facts and from those facts reach the best (and hopefully correct) conclusion.
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English
Physical description
9.3 inches
ISBN
0394831276 / 9780394831275