The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party

First or second grade reading level. This is a cute book that teaches the importance of responsibility and kindness. This is not necessarily an educational book, but it teaches two good lessons.This book would be a great tool when discussing responsibility at home as well as friends and being fair.

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This would be a good character education book.

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Sister bear gets invited to a sleepover at Lizzy's house! Mama Bear gives her a lecture on responsibility before leaving, but as soon as sister arrives she forgets! Lizzy's parents are gone and all the cubs in the neighborhood decide to show up. The party gets out of control and the police are

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called! Will sister bear learn her lesson?

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Lizzie Bruin, Sister Bear's best friend, is having a slumber party at her house. At first it was just going to be a few of her close friends, but word got out and other cubs were joining the slumber party. When Mama Bear found out, she was furious, but Papa bear told her that it was partly their

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fault as well for not confirming with the Bruins to see what the slumber party was going to be like.

I like this book because its not only for children to teach them about responsibility and privileges, but also for adults, to tell them that trusting your children is important, but you have to play the part in it as well, by making sure nothing bad will happen.

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I really enjoyed this book for three reasons. First, the character development of Sister Bear (the main character) and her parents strongly relate to children growing up with their parents. Sister bear is invited to a slumber party at Lizzy’s house. Before Sister Bear attends the sleepover Momma

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Bear teaches her about responsibility and privileges, but as soon as she arrives she forgets. Lizzie’s parents are out of town and the party gets out of control and the police are called. This relates perfectly to kids taking advantage of their parents. It’s not until something bad happens that kids realize they did something wrong. Next, there is a surplus of descriptive language used throughout the book. For example, “And they certainly hadn’t planned on a rip-roaring, earsplitting, popcorn-throwing, soda-squirting, party for half the cubs in neighborhood”. This perfectly explains the events that went on during the slumber party. Lastly, the illustrations added depth to the story. They captured what was going on throughout the book and showed the emotions of all the bears throughout the story. Overall, the main idea of this book is learning about responsibility and not taking advantage of your parents when they are away from home.

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Review: These series of books by Stan and Jan Berestain are very well written and have great illustrations. This book was very interesting and fun. It was about a real life situation that could happen to anyone, and the reader can relate to the story.

Summary: This story starts with sister bear

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getting invited to a slumber party at her friend Lizzy's house. After having a long talk with her parents about privilege and responsibility, they finally agree to let her go. When sister bear gets to Lizzy's house for the sleepover, she realizes that Lizzy's parents were going out of town for the night so they were home alone. Lizzy invited only a few friends to sleepover, but the word got out that she was having a party. Before Lizzy realized, she had so many people at her party and it was getting out of hand. The neighbors called the police because it was too loud. The police called all of the children's parents to come pick them up. Mama was very angry and grounded sister bear. After Papa talked to Mama and made her realize that it was not all sister bears fault and that they should have checked with Lizzy's parents before sister bear went to sleep over there. All of the bears learned a great lesson that day.

Argument: Overall I think that children will love reading this book. The Berenstain Bears books always write about meaningful things that children can relate to.

The message of the book is about privilege and responsibility. In the book mama bear says "sleeping over at a friends house is a kind of special privilege. And something that goes with privilege is responsibility." Sister bear said "privilege means being allowed to do stuff, and responsibility means not messing up." They said the meaning in the book and makes the reader understand the message easier, especially for children.

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Lizzy Bruin's slumber party becomes even wilder when Too-Tall Grizzly and his friends decide to attend uninvited.