As a children, my brother and I had a ton of The Berenstain Bears books.

As an adult, reflecting, these might have been some of the better books for children available. I think I'll read a few more...
And then likely see if my mother has ours tucked away in storage somewhere. ( )

Independent reading level

"While out of school for a few days with a cold, Brother Bear ignores his make-up work. And when he returns to class, he discovers the consequences of neglecting his responsibilities: he fails his division test. Grizzly Gramps helps Brother learn that it's never too late to correct a mistake. But, to make matters worse, someone has taken his place on the soccer team." -- Scholastic, Inc.

When Brother Bear returns to school after being sick he gets into a mess that gets worse and worse until Gramp give him some advice.

In my opinion this was a good book. This book is about getting in trouble at school. The main idea of this book is responsibility and doing your school work. If you don't do your school work then you will get bad grades, it's your responsibility to get your school work done and study for your tests. One of the reasons I really liked this book was because of the illustrations. For example, throughout the book it gives you the main picture of where they are, but it also leaves some of the page blank for the writing. It's just an interesting way to set up each page. I also really enjoyed the colors of the book. For example, if you go through the book the colors are very calm, even when they were meant to be bright colors, but the colors have a way of drawing your eye in, because they choose warm colors for each page. Another reason why I really liked this book was because of the plot of the story. The book goes through to show how Brother bear doesn't do his school work and gets a bad grade. "Not only did Brother get every problem wrong, but Teacher Bob wrote on the paper: "very poor! Must be signed by parent."" Therefore not only does he get a bad grade, but he has to share it with his parents. Therefore, this book is showing you what could happen if you don't have responsibility for doing your work. I really liked this book. ( )