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The Bear Scouts

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This tale of Papa Bear's prideful camping advice that ALWAYS turns out wrong is a classic. I LOVED this book when I was young, and indeed I still do! I never mind reading it to my 3 year old daughter. We quote the line "Your stew is stewing well, but doesn't it have a funny smell?" to each other as an inside joke.

The Bear Scouts leave on a camping adventure, but at the last minute Papa Bear insists on going to "help out". His son and the other scouts always use their Bear Scout Guide, and always have success. But Dad ties his own knot which fails, makes stew of roots that tastes awful but then gladly devours the fish the scouts catch, and so forth. The rhyme is fun and memorable, the illustrations are captivating, and I would recommend it to anyone!

This is a funny Berenstain Bears adventure book, in which the kids go camping and follow their Bear Scout Guidebook while Papa Bear tries to do everything his way and ends up making a big mess. My 3 y.o. likes this story very much, and asks for it frequently.

Like with many other Berenstain Bears books, I like that it teaches the importance of reading to learn stuff, but I find the dad's kluziness a bit annoying as I believe it undermines the respect for parents, cause it's not that it shows that parents can make mistakes too, but that they're totally incapable of doing something right.

However, it's a funny story, the adventure has a nice pace to it, and my kid enjoys reading it.

Like other Berenstein books, Dad's a doofus, while the kids are wise in this camping-out adventure.

This is a fun story with nice artwork that I've ready many times to my kids (now 3 1/2 and 2). Frankly, I've gotten kind of tired of it -- the dad-bashing routine gets repetitive after a few dozen readings.

But the kids like it, and I think it will be a good one when they start reading on their own, too. There's even some good camping tips ("Put up your tents before it's late").

My younger brother had this book when we were growing up in the 1970's and as a child, I absolutely loved this book! Now that I was fortunate enough to get a copy for my own two boys, I not only get the opportunity to relive some fond memories of my own childhood, but I get the opportunity to have my children form some of their own. This book outshines most modern children's books and is proof that literacy of the past was superior to anything we have today.

My son loved this book, and now my great nephew has it and loves it, 30 years later.

This was one of my favorite books when I was a child. My copy was getting a little ragged, to say the least, and I had to pick up a new copy for my own child to enjoy. I can't recommend this book enough!

It has beautiful illustrations and a fun story for those of us who enjoy the outdoors, scouting, spending time with Dad, or just a good Berenstain Bears book!

I still have my copy from when I was a kid. It brings back memories of having my father along as a chaparone for Girl Scout trips. The moral of the story is that well meaning parents don't always know the right way to do things and should they should learn to listen better to their children.

Your child will love Papa Bear's misadventures as he attempts to teach the Bear Scouts the "correct" way to conquer the out-of-doors. Luckily, the Bear Scouts also have their bear scout manual along.

The illustrations (especially of Papa Bear "experiencing" the outdoors) and rhyming words will pull in your preschool or early school age child, and they will request this book again and again. This is a Berenstain Bear classic!