Thank+You,+Brother+Bear



__Thank You, Brother Bear __ By Hans Baumann Pictures by Eric Carle Grades: First – Fourth Paperback: 32 pages Price: $14.95 Publisher: Scholastic Trade, December 1995 Language: English ISBN-10: 0590254871 ISBN-13: 978-0590254878
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This is the inspirational story of Chip, the youngest brother in a family of hunters living in the Northern woods. His two oldest brothers are strong hunters who provide for Chip, his grandmother and younger sister who all live together. Despite the two oldest brothers being such avid hunters, Chip loves the animals too much to be able to hunt them. His kindness towards animals is returned when his sister falls ill, while his brothers are out hunting and the animals help him cross the dangerous terrain of the northern woods to get medicine for her.
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I personally enjoyed reading this book because it has a different approach to a common lesson about kindness. The illustrations are done in a collage style that adds more to the multicultural feel of this book. At first, the illustrations appear to be simplistic, but upon looking closer and spending more time looking at them, there is actually a lot of detail on each page. This book carries a great message for the readers and is a great at home read as well as a strong tool in the elementary classroom. This book has the ability to be used by teachers when working on lessons involving multiculturalism, sequencing and identifying the main character.
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This book clearly demonstrates the literary element of sequencing. Readers follow Chip on his journey to attain the medicine for his sister and during his journey he is faced with several obstacles, which are key points in the story. For this reason, this story can be used to teach students sequencing because there are clear main points that the story depends on that the readers should be able to indentify and put in order after reading the story.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hans Baumann has published several other children’s books including Mischa And His Brothers, Alexander’s Great March and The Caves of The Great Hunters.
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