Old Hat New Hat

I loved The Berenstain Bears as a child, and I'm thrilled that my children love them too. We've had Berenstain Bear books and movie/videos in our collection for years.... each of my 5 children have loved them, and has gone through a Berenstain Bears phase at some point..... my youngest, 7, is currently in this phase. These books are part of our bedtime reading every night.

This one is great for vocabulary building and improving descriptive skills. A very cute story in the rhyming format children like.

Didn't realize the Berenstain Bears went this young. Anyway, here we have a fantastic vocabulary-building tool that shouts out its textures (fuzzy! holey! crooked! etc.!) and gives the adult reader a chance to do some fun prosodic and voicing stuff reading out all the different kinds of hats.

This is one of the earlier Berenstain Bear books, and it shows. Despite the cover, the bears on the *inside* of this book are less stylized and cutesy than the bears in the newer books, and the story is an early reader instead of a longer read-aloud.

It's a cute little story about a cub suffering from "grass is greener" syndrome, but unable to decide which hat to get. Eventually he decides his old one is perfect - you saw that coming!

There are only a few words per page, with a basic vocabulary, so this one is perfect little-little ones learning to talk. I do find that many of the words in this book are too uncommon, too long, or follow too odd spelling rules for this book to really function as an early reader. But it's so funny that I show more don't think that really matters. show less

This is a cute story for beginning readers. It is another story about being happy with what you have. The bear tried on tons of other hats trying to find the perfect one, and it ended up being his old hat.

This book great for beginning readers because it is filled with short, easy, rhyming words. It is about someone looking for a new hat who visits the perfect hat store. He goes in and tries on dozens of hats but none seem to be as good as the old hat he came with.

A classic example of not being able to teach old bears new tricks.

The Berenstain Bears are Out shopping, the Bears look at frilly and silly hats, bumpy and lumpy ones. This book presents an opportunity to present the concepts of sizes and shape to children using humor.