The Berenstain Bears and the Big Red Kite
by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Berenstain Bears Cub Club, Berenstain Bears (98)
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Brother and Sister Bear want to enter the kite-flying contest, but they have no kite. Papa Bear to the rescue!Tags
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Brother and Sister Bear want to enter the kite-flying contest, but they don’t have a kite. What will they do? Will they find a way to get a kite and enter the contest?
With its trademark rhyme and repetition making this easy-reader book perfect for beginning readers, the familiar characters will delight young children. Parents will appreciate the messages of persistence and doing your best . . . both important lessons for children to learn. Additionally, children see the unkindness of bullying, helping them to understand how bullying hurts others. They also see the family working together to solve a problem, providing a positive representation of family. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life for young readers.
This Berenstain show more Bear Cub Club edition is part of the Readers Digest Young Families series.
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With its trademark rhyme and repetition making this easy-reader book perfect for beginning readers, the familiar characters will delight young children. Parents will appreciate the messages of persistence and doing your best . . . both important lessons for children to learn. Additionally, children see the unkindness of bullying, helping them to understand how bullying hurts others. They also see the family working together to solve a problem, providing a positive representation of family. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life for young readers.
This Berenstain show more Bear Cub Club edition is part of the Readers Digest Young Families series.
Recommended. show less
The bears want to enter a kite contest, but they haven’t got a kite. They make one that all the other contestants make fun of. When the wind picks up, however, everyone else’s kites rip, and they win fair and square. As Mama Bear says, they persist to win.
spending time with family and working together is the main concept of this book. it also teaches the importance of family and that making memories with them are very special.
Excellent story-from daddo
rhyming book
the bear family spend their time making a kite for them to fly. the book discusses the different kites that can be made. others made fun of their kite because it wasn't pretty, it was too plain. eventually the bears' kite stayed up in the air because it was plain.
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the bear family spend their time making a kite for them to fly. the book discusses the different kites that can be made. others made fun of their kite because it wasn't pretty, it was too plain. eventually the bears' kite stayed up in the air because it was plain.
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Stan Berenstain was born in 1923 in Philadelphia, the same year and place as his future wife, Jan. They met as students at the Philadelphia College of Art. World War II delayed their career plans: Stan joined the army as a medical assistant while Jan supported the war effort by working in an airplane factory. They married in 1946 and together show more began drawing cartoons for the McCall's/Good Housekeeping It's All in the Family series. They worked on this feature from 1956 through 1990. The Big Honey Hunt, published in 1962, was their first book for children. This book about a family of bears, written for Dr. Seuss's Beginner Books series, was so popular that Dr. Seuss himself, Theodore Geisel, encouraged them to write more stories. Geisel's advice launched the Berenstains on life-career writing and illustrating the very successful Berenstain Bears books. The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, published in 1974, was the beginning of the First Time Books series. The Children's Choice Award was given to The Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors in 1995. The Berenstains were also honored for their work in children's literature when they received the Ludington Award in 1989. There have been television shows based on the Berenstain Bears books, as well as CD-ROMs and videos. Stan Berenstain passed away on November 26th, 2005, after a lengthy battle with lymphoma. He was 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Jan Berenstain was born Jan Grant on July 26, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She met Stan Berenstain on their first day of classes in 1941 at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. During World War II, Stan served as a medical illustrator in an Army hospital and Jan worked as a draftswoman in the Army Corps of Engineers and as an show more aircraft riveter. They married in 1946 and together began drawing cartoons for the McCall's/Good Housekeeping All in the Family series. They worked on this feature from 1956 through 1990. They also published artwork in magazines like Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. The Big Honey Hunt, published in 1962, was their first book for children. This book, which was written for Dr. Seuss's Beginner Books series, was so popular that Dr. Seuss himself, Theodore Geisel, encouraged them to write more stories. His advice launched them on a life-career writing and illustrating the Berenstain Bears books. The Berenstain Bears' New Baby, published in 1974, was the beginning of the First Time Books series. She wrote more than 300 books during her lifetime. The couple received numerous awards including the Children's Choice Award for The Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors in 1995 and the Ludington Award in 1989 for their work in children's literature. There have been television shows based on the Berenstain Bears books, as well as CD-ROMs and videos. She died after a stroke on February 24, 2012 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Berenstain Bears and the Big Red Kite
- Original publication date
- 1992
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- Children's Books, Picture Books
- DDC/MDS
- 808.068 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Rhetoric and anthologies By Type Of Writing Children's literature
- LCC
- PZ7 .B452 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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