Papa Bear and the cubs are having some trouble with chores—they don't want to do them! When they decide to take a break from cleaning, Mama Bear plays along. But what will happen when the mess builds up . . . and up . . . and up?
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Stan and Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children's books. The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Since then, more than 250 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and more than 260 million copies have been sold. What began as an idea sparked by their young sons' interest in children's books has become over the years arguably the best-selling children's book series ever.
Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books—even a hit TV show on PBS. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000.
Since Stan's death at age eighty-two in 2005, Jan and Mike have continued to write and illustrate wonderful new adventures for Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear. They live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which looks a lot like Bear Country.
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This review is from: The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores (Paperback)
My little one loves the Berenstain Bears so when I saw this one, I grabbed it through a book club. It talks about how the cubs always want to get out of doing their chores, as well as Papa bear (he doesn't want to mow the lawn because a mama spider just got finished making a web on his lawnmower!) and they make up all sorts of excuses as to why they cannot do them. So for awhile, Mama decides that instead of hearing all the bickering, arguing and excuse making, that it would just be easier if she did them herself. However, she eventually gives in to her family when they ask to stop doing chores. Mama starts her gardening and quilting clubs again and the treehouse falls into a total mess. Even a milipede comes chasing Sister in the bathtub, there's dust and doggie doo-doo everywhere, wet, moldy towels and shower curtains, and a sink full of dishes covered in flies! Yuck!
This book gives a great example of what happens when folks don't want to do their chores around the house. It very clearly paints a vivid picture of how important all of our responsibilities are both to the things we own and to each other as family members. As always, the Berenstains teach a very valuble lesson. (This book is also particularly great to hand over to all the dads to read!) Highly recommend!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Start a conversation with you child,
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This review is from: The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores (Paperback)
I love all the Berenstein Bears books. They can provide a good starting point for a conversation with your child. Don't look to these books for answers on how to handle a problem. They aren't meant for that.
In this one, we see what happens when Mama gets tired of everyone else avoiding their chores, so she avoids hers, too. Once the others see what the house is like, they start to pitch in to help. This book started a good discussion between me and my 7 year old about what chores are and why we should do them. We talked about Mama Bear's feelings when Papa and the cubs didn't do their chores. We also talked about what happened to the tree house when Mama quit doing her chores and how that made everyone else feel. These are great books for reading anytime and are easy for my child to read alone and understand.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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..and the trouble with passive aggressiveness,
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The Berenstain Bears are in heavy rotation at our house lately and this one sticks out like a sore thumb. Aside from the diminished art quality, writing, and even print quality, the mood and tone of this are quite different from most of the rest of the pack. It seems that sarcasm and passive-agressiveness are the themes in this episode in Bear Family life. Mother, usually the sage stalwart seems herself worn down by the apathy in the tree house and behaves like a college roommate rather than the matriarch. I suppose with 3 kids and an occasionally oafish husband might put you in a funk, and the lesson is eventually learned, but this felt like how I would handle the situation. I freely admit that my way is not the best way to handle it.
One of the great benefits of these books is that they help parents too. Not in a deep, life-changing way, but certainly in a daily reminder kind of way that parenting is about thoughtful, consistent, and occasionally artful applications of love, structure, and discipline. Maybe the parent take-away is that you can't be Mama Bear all the time. Overall, this particular book just doesn't jive with the rest. It might have to fall behind a dresser or something. Interestingly, this book almost illustrates the tragedy of the commons, but not quite. That might be a good topic for the next volume.
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