Bear Shadow [Board book]

Frank Asch (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

When Little Bear's shadow gets in the way of his catching a fish, he decides to get rid of it. No matter what he does though, it won't go away!.

Product Details

• Board book: 32 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin (October 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671668668
• ISBN-13: 978-0671668662
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 7.7 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Cute, Holds Interest, July 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Bear Shadow (Board book)

My son loved this book! He even knew what would happen next and laughed and enjoyed seeing how silly bear was by trying to bury his own shadow. This was an excellent book, not too long, not too short and he will look forward to reading it by himself this year when he learns to read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Bear's shadow is a nice story, October 19, 2005

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Bonnie Sayers "autismfamily" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bear Shadow (Board book)

There are about twenty-eight pages with each one being of white background with various square sizes of the illustrations in blue, green, brown and white colors. This makes the picture a separate box and the text below or next to the picture.

The bear is a brown bear that starts the day by fishing at the pond. Bear notices a big fish while hooking the worm onto his pole and wants to catch it. The bear stood up to toss his pole in the water but his shadow scared the fish away. The bear tried to tell his shadow to go away but it stayed there. Since the shadow would not leave the Bear decided he would run until the shadow disappeared. The Bear ran around the pond, through a field of flowers and then jumped over a brook ending up hiding behind a tree.

Next the Bear went home to get a hammer and nails to nail his shadow to the ground but the shadow did not go down. Then the Bear got out a shovel thinking he could bury the shadow in a deep hole. By the time Bear finished filling the hole up it was afternoon with the sun high in the sky but no shadow to be found. After all this hard work Bear went inside to take a nap awakening after the sun had set. Bear went to open his front door and there was his shadow on the floor so he quickly shut the door going outside and hoping to leave his shadow inside.

It turned out his shadow was too quick because it was outside the door with the Bear. Now the Bear decided that if the shadow would let him catch a fish he would let the shadow get one too and when he nodded his head so did his shadow. Back to the pond the Bear goes again but this time the sun is in another part of the sky so the shadow was able to steer clear of scaring the fish. This time the shadow was behind the Bear while in the morning the shadow was in front of him closer to the pond. At the end of the day the Bear and his shadow caught their big fish.

My six-year old likes to play around with shadows on the wall in the house plus loves bears so this is a book that gets read quite often. I would suggest a toddler to first grader would benefit from the silliness of the bear and his shadow.

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book!, December 13, 2010

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J.L.T. - See all my reviews

This review is from: bear shadow (Paperback)

I remember reading Happy Birthday Moon as a child and didn't realize that Frank Asch had other books until I was an adult with my own children. I just love Asch. He makes amazing books. My daughters also love this book. I love how funny it is.