The children will easily be able to understand the plot of the story and will look forward to finding out Big Bear's solution to curing the darkness so that Little Bear can finally go to sleep in one peace! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The illustrations are cute, but otherwise, way too repetitive to not be boring, both my 5 yr old and preschoolers had a hard time staying engaged in this story.A bestselling story which won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration, and has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.

I really enjoyed this gentle tale (that is not without humor) about Little Bear who can't get to sleep because of his fear of the dark, and patient and resourceful Big Bear who helps him through his fears (even though Big Bear has a very exciting part of his book to read and keeps getting interrupted! in un inglese comprensibile anche perni bimbi piccoli,con frasi brevi e che si ripetono, il che non solo piace ai bimbi, ma aiuta anche a fissare le espressioni. I also read this book with children when I worked in a pre-nursery and during SBT with the younger children. It's a great book as a story telling excercise at Early Years, yet is also great for those in the later stages of Key Stage One learning to read, with alot of word asnd phrase repetition for those less confident.It was relatable to us on so many levels; a little baby bear being afraid of the dark/the unknown and the big bear trying to help by shedding some light on the situation. He's only young but likes to look at the pictures and it's a good length story to help him get used to hearing people read. The illustrations are darling and I loved how, in the end, Big Bear wanted Little Bear to confront his fear of the dark, but did so in a very gentle and reassuring way helping him to always see the lights that appear in the darkness. The artwork by Barbara Firth is simply delightful, perfectly capturing the emotional register of each scene.

It is an excellent story to use expression when being told, making it an excellent book to engage the child whom it is being read to( eg. They are also shaped like windows so that the reader is almost looking into this new world where the bears live. Little Bear still tosses and turns so Big Bear has to stop reading his book again to get him some more light.

I found it a book that was good to relax the children and one to read them when they are not feeling very brave themselves. The book also contains a lot of inverted commas so it could be used as an example for teaching those in grammar. Calming night-time nerves and awakening a sense of wonder at the magnificence of nature, this reassuring snuggle-up story is a must for any child. The pages at the beginning are lightly coloured like a lamp to symbolise the safety of the bear’s home, I would discuss this with children and why the pages get darker as the bears go outside.