The Bear Under The Stairs

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Since then she has written and illustrated a whole lot more including the bestselling 'Pumpkin Soup' ,which is 25 years old this year, and also the others in the series which are 'A Pipkin of Pepper', and 'Delicious'. Find out what happens when a nasty smell pervades the house and Mum and William decide to investigate . I loved the ending, where Williams Mumma comforts him and with her by his side, he gains the courage to tackle the bear under the stair. Children will particularly like the imaginative bear scenes such as what the bear does at night while William sleeps and the bear holding his luggage while parachuting down to a new house at the end.

Therefore I would recommend this book for children aged 3+ as well as adults who are feeling rather nostalgic! This is a three-week Writing Root in which children will look at the book The Bear Under the Stairs and use it as a model to discuss their fears and how they deal with them.He is utterly convinced that the bear will gobble him up if he doesn't feed it, so every day he carefully opens the door, throws in some food and slams it shut quickly - wham, bang, thump! The space under the stairs begins to smell, so William and his mother must figure our how to approach the scary bear.

Cute little book, my toddler and kindergartner enjoy, addresses children's fears of the unseen - how they can let their imagination run wild. Helen Cooper is a significant and prolific author who won the Kate Greenaway award twice for two consecutive books. I love Helen Cooper: her stories are always thought-provoking and with gorgeously detailed illustrations. es erzählt auf liebevolle weise, wie die phantasie von kindern alles mögliche heraufbeschwören kann(in diesem fall einen riesengrossen bären unter der treppe)und was dabei herauskommt. It would make a lovely book to be read at storytime as there is opportunity for lots of conversation and discussion about the ending of the book.I thought the ending had an unnecessary twist and would leave children to continue being afraid of the dark, and the scary creatures that they believe exist in the dark. However, after recently reading it to a class, one child pointed out to me that the bear is actually hidden behind the door of cellar when Williams’s mother decides to investigate! It’s a chronological narrative using lots of alliteration, rhythm and rhyme – it’s really a poetry book as well as a story. As a child I personally believed that the bear in the story was a figment of Williams’s imagination.