Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear?
Written by Martin Waddell
Illustrated by Barbara Firth
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
ISBN: 0-7445-7066-2
This book was originally recommended and leant to me by a friend about a year ago and last week I issued it from the library after spotting it on the bookshelf. It’s a really lovely story, and as you can guess from the title it makes an excellent bed-time read to the young ones.
My husband has read this story many times, too, and he finds it a bit wordy as every piece of dialogue is followed by “asked Big Bear” or “said Little Bear”. I like this, though, as when you’re reading aloud you’re never quite sure that the children understand which character is saying what without putting on very dramatic voice changes, so I find this makes it easy for my kids to follow what each character is saying.
My husband and I do agree, however, that the image of Little Bear doing a hand-stand on his bed accompanied by the line “Little Bear tried and tried to go to sleep, but he couldn’t” very humorous.
My rating: 4 out of 5
Review written by team_s
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