Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road. ( )

This book teaches kids the location of top, bottom, and middle. Have the students locate the top, bottom, and middle of different vegetables.

This comical folktale is based in both Europe and the American South, and is the story of a bear that has lots of money and land, but is very lazy. It is also the story of Mr. and Mrs. Hare who have nothing but create a plan to trick the Sleepy Bear into letting them use his land to raise crops. ( )

A delightful trickster tale where hardship is overcome by using one's wits. Bear has lots of money and land but he is lazy. Hare's family is hungry. Hare is smart and comes up with a plan to outsmart Bear. Great illustrations showing detailed vegetabes; tops & bottoms. ( )

Tops and Bottoms is a book that teaches a lesson using fantasy. Bear sleeps while Hare plants his fields and harvests the crops and keeps all the profits. Hare does trick Bear with promises but Bear soon realizes that the promises are of empty profits. The lesson here is do not let one partner do all the work and expect to receive any of the profits.

I enjoyed this book and the lesson it teaches. No one is too old to be reminded how one needs to work hard to achieve things. The way the book is read and illustrated really catches the readers’ attention and I believe the little ones will love this book.

This book definitely can be used to teach a lesson on laziness. The kids need to be taught that they have to work hard to get what they want. The book can also be used in a lesson on food and how and when to plant each crop. The kids could form partners with each other and let them decide how to split the duties and profits of the crops.