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Bing: Yuk!

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We love Bing! My son is 3 1/2 and my daughter is 1 1/2 and they both love Bing Bunny. My daughter loves how colorful and cute the artwork is and my son is just getting interested in trying to read so he likes to help with the words. I am required to read all three of the Bing books that we currently own each and every night. I will have to acquire the remaining 5 books before their birthdays this summer or mayhem could ensue. Great books for an honest look at toddlerhood. It's a Bing Thing!

My 28 mn old son LOVES Bing Bunny and Flop more than any other book character!!!!! Sometimes I have to read these books over and over in one setting. They have really nurtured my son's love of books. Thank-you Ted Dewan!

Bing Bunny is charming, a handul, and willful. In short, just like our kids. My younger daughter kept the Bing books so long from the library that I ordered all eight. When they arrived today she was elated - spent the entire day asking me to read them or 'reading' them to herself. Her sister came home from school and tried to touch one but a full toddler meltdown appeared likely so she backed away from the stack.

Bing has a great rhythm for reading aloud, interesting easy to follow art, and a lack of preaching. Bing might get in trouble, but he doesn't have to be a model citizen. In Yuk! Bing is faced with a tomato. Bing does not want to try the tomato. Bing is cajoled with all the food he does like (roundy eggs, snappy carrots) and asked to try the tomato. Bing knocks it to the floor and gets a time out. But Bing doesn't have to try the tomato. Brilliant.

I wish Bing were as popular in America as Barney is. These books are a hoot and my son just can't get enough of them. I checked all 8 out from the library and had to end up buying them.

Bing is a bunny who interacts with his stuffed animal Flop. The books show Bing learning colors, foods, potty training, etc., all in the course of a day.

Adults will enjoy the '60s vibe of the cars, houses and furniture in the books.

Maybe an animated Bing show in America will make these books as popular as they deserve to be.

I have been a professional childcarer for 20 years. The Ted Dewan Bing Bunny books have been a firm favourite with my under 3s. Some of their first words come from the stories. It is such a shame they are out of print now.

Each of the Bing books addresses a theme relevant to young children (getting dressed, making music, going on a picnic etc). In "Yuk" Bing Bunny continues to reject a tomato despite all the efforts by his sidekick Flop to convince him that he might like it. ("You like gooey cheese and bright red strawberries - wouldn't you love to try a yummy tomato?") My family loves all of the books in the Bing series, and they are some of the most-read books in our rather considerable library. There is something about the energy and drama in the books that seems to make them irresistible to toddlers and fun to read (over and over again) for adults. In each of the books Bing experiences some kind of a mishap, which is vividly illustrated on two-page spreads with matching sounds (Splash! Bash! Pok! etc.) The drama is so reminiscent of toddlers who switch from excited enthusiasm to utter despair in a matter of moments. I am always disappointed that these books are not more widely stocked by bookstores and libraries.

I read Paint Day and Getting Dressed to my 3 yr old son every night. He absolutely loves these books and tricked Grandpa into thinking that he was actually reading these books! After mastering Paint Day in English we introduced the Japanese equivalents for the colors. I'm amazed how rapidly his young mind can absorb all this new knowledge! Sometimes he even imitates the facial expressions of Bing and Flop. I'm ordering the rest of these books now...for me. I love reading these books to him.