![]() ![]() I realize that might seem like I'm reading into it too much, but I am just not comfortable with any form of deception being encouraged in the books that we read to our children. there is just a hungry narrator wanting a share of the mouse's food, and choosing not to go about getting it honestly. so the mouse should share it with the narrator! It's cute and happy, but ultimately it seems that there really isn't a big hungry bear. The whole premise of the book is that the narrator is warning the mouse that the big hungry bear is coming to eat the mouse's strawberry. It's cute, but it's still fear and deception. ![]() The basis of the storyline is fear and deception. At an age when she is learning the nuances of seemingly everything and is absorbing every ideology that we put in front of her, I feel that this book is not the best model for my toddler to learn from. I think that they would both give it five stars!Īlthough I have enjoyed reading it, I would have to give it a lesser rating, and here's why. My older child can recite the whole thing and my younger child finds the "BOOM BOOM BOOM" part to be hilarious. It is the only book that my nine-month-old and two-year-old both really love right now. ![]() Vivid illustrations, simple but fun storyline. ![]()
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