A Visitor For Bear. Bonny Becker (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Bear likes peace and quiet and wants to be left alone. Bear even has a sign outside his house to keep visitors away. One day, Bear hears a knock on the door during breakfast. Bear opens up the door and looks down to see a small grey mouse. Bear turns mouse away and continues to make breakfast, only to find the mouse in his cupboard! Bear shows the mouse to the door and asks him to leave. However, as Bear carries on with making his breakfast, the mouse begins to appear in the fridge, in the cupboard and all over the kitchen! Bear continues to show mouse the door, until he finds him in the oven, which at this point, Bear invites Mouse in for breakfast. As Bear and Mouse spend time together over breakfast, they begin to form an unlikely friendship, and in the end Bear doesn't want Mouse to go home. I really enjoyed reading this book, as it is a simple story which has a nice moral to it: to give people a chance. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations in the book as well, as they helped with my imagination of the story. I think this book would be a perfect addition to a Reception and a Year One bookshelf. The book could be used to read aloud to the children and could also help them with their writing skills. Another possible use is that the book could be used for independent reading, depending upon the ability of the child. Audience: PrimaryGenre: Picture Book/FantasyPre-reading Strategy: Picture WalkThis book works well for a picture walk because of the details the illustrator has given the pictures. The author has also made pieces of the storyline repetitive, and the pictures imitate the recurring problem, therefore the students should be able to recognize this and make predictions. Pre-reading Strategy Script:"Hello class, today we are going to read a Golden Sower Nominee book, titled "A Visitor For Bear," by Bonny Becker, and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton. Before we begin I want us to take a picture walk. Although we will not actually be moving around, we will be walking through the pages of the book examining only the pictures and making predictions about the story using only the illustrations. Do any of you like bears? How many of you are scared of bears? What if you were told to visit a bear at his house, would you do it? Ok let's start our picture walk by first looking at only the front cover. Who does it look like the main characters of this book will be? What does the sign on the door say? Now let's flip to the first page. Notice how the sign illustrated on the first page is the same as the one shown on the front. Hmm...this sign must be pretty important..."This type of questioning would continue throughout the book."Ok class, now that we have examined all the pictures in our story, let's try and summarize what we believe this book is about. Use examples from the pictures we saw to support your predictions, and make a final prediction describing how the book ends. Once we are done, we can read "A Visitor For Bear," and figure out the real story behind all these pictures!"
What do You think about A Visitor For Bear. Bonny Becker (2010)?
A cute little story. It was nice how things turned around for mouse and bear.
—kraziemama
This was a fun and adorable children's book, my kids loved it and so did I!
—sroche13
Cute, fun little story using grumpy voice for bear my daughter loved it.
—mybaker
