“Bear Feels Scared” is a wonderful book that helps guide and express emotional and social development. The sing-song lyrical prose and beautifully illustrated pages bring the main character Bear’s emotions to life with vivid color and expression. The book highlights the importance of friendship, self awareness, and teamwork, all the while conveying to the reader a sense of emotional connection and empathy for the lost Bear.The story is a about a bear who is hungry and goes out to look for a snack. The sun starts to set and the wind starts to howl and poor old bear find himself lost in the ever growing darkness, cut off from his friends and home. As the story progresses, Bear becomes overwhelmed and lays down to cry. At the same time that the reader is becoming increasingly concerned for the lovable bear, his team of friends hatch a plan to come to his rescue. The troop of friends express caring and empathy as they place them selves in Bear’s paws and ask them selves, “what if bear feels scared”. In the end the mix match group of animal friends band together using team work and determination to find their poor lost friend Bear.The book is an excellent choice for any teacher who is looking for an age appropriate way to discuss the issues of fear, teamwork, friendship, and empathy. The bears emotions of fear and desperation is something any child can relate to and the artist’s depiction of bear’s facial expressions reach out to the young audience and give them something to grab ahold of. Most young students can relate to feeling so afraid or overwhelmed that they just give up. The story can be used to show students that it is ok to feel scared and sometimes their are problems in life which are to big for us to handle alone and require the help of our friends. In addition, the teacher can use Bear’s emotional fears and the concern of his friends to teach students the value of empathy and placing themselves in someone else’s shoes.“Bear Feels Scared” is an excellent choice for any early elementary classroom. Any teacher who is looking for a unique way to teach about emotional growth and the importance of friendship, teamwork and empathy who be well served by checking this book out. This book is so cute. Usually the bear is the scary animal, but in this book, the bear is lost and scared. And all his little friends have to go out and search for him. This book teaches children about friendship. We can talk about different things that we can do for a friend. We can talk about feelings thqt children might. Have. What do they do when they are scared? This book an open many great discussion with children.
What do You think about Bear Feels Scared (2008)?
We've been fans of this series since my kids were quite young....
—kim
Rhythmic read aloud discussing emotions and power of community.
—sakurakamisaka
So far I like everything Karma gets published.
—larajeanjam
I love all Karma Wilson's Bear books.
—DanielRivers99
