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The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race

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My nephew has this book almost memorized, he enjoys the story so much. The race cars are illustrated in bright colors making learning fun. The excitement builds throughout the book, and the story teaches a message about persistence. I would recommend this book for any public or private library.

But this book is really fun, especially for the car obsessed. Four different colors of bears race around a crazy race track, going "over" and "under", "around" and "behind" and playing dirty tricks on each other in rhyme. Not a cloying book like many others in the series. A favorite for ages 3 to 4.

My 23 month old is really into cars. He wants to read this book over and over and over. It is really cute and teaches 5 colors and five car "sounds", along with up, down, around, and through. I think it's hilarious when the "big mean green car" plays a dirty trick and my son says "OH NO!". It also teaches the lesson of persitence and patience. Very fun book!

Such a simple story, but one our 4-year-old grandson loves! The words are easy to memorize, so he can tell the story to us as we turn the pages. With a strong sense of fairness, he particularly likes the ending. The book also works as a good first-reader.

This book is my three-year-old's absolute favorite. Every night we read three books, and this is always one of them. It's not like the other Berenstain Bears books, which I personally find a little wordy and preachy. But this one is done in poetry form, with a very natural cadence that's fun to read aloud and easy for little ones to memorize... and believe me, we have! It's a pretty simple tortoise-and-hare story, where "Little Red" (driven by Brother Bear) "putt-putt-putts" along while the bigger, louder, arrogant cars foil each other with their meanness and over-confidence. Red eventually wins the race, to the great delight of the bears and my son.

I've used this book to teach all kinds of things, from rhyming to colors (the cars are red, orange, yellow, green, and blue) to counting ("four big cars") to prepositions ("over, under, around, and through") to social concepts like persistence, kindness, fairness, and self-assurance. And it's got some great vocabulary that your little ones are unlikely to encounter anywhere else. My three-year-old can now use words like "appetite" and "boastful" correctly in a sentence, thanks to "Big Road Race". I can't recommend this little story highly enough, especially if you've got a boy who loves cars.

This is such a cute book, both for toddlers but also for new readers. It rhymes thoughout the book and basically, is the story of the tortoise and the hare but with racecars. It's really, really cute, rhymes well, and makes learning to read quite the fun time. Highly recommend!

Our 23-month-old toddler really loves this book. If you have a child who loves cars, get this book! It's really charming, humorous and fun for the parent, too.