We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Reviewed by: Barbara Merritt - Scarborough School Department, Scarborough, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: December 2, 2014

Review

This version of what may originally been a campfire hand rhyme comes with a sound board down the side to enhance the story telling. The wonderful pastel color pages alternate with pages of charcoal drawn illustrations. The expressions on the four children and presumably their father are wonderful throughout. The alliterative text on the color pages is enclosed in a box which also includes a small image of the button the reader is to press to hear the appropriate sound. Children will need to search the buttons for the correct one to press. At the end, they all end up safe in bed vowing never to go on a bear hunt again. This book would not do well in library circulation due to the sounds and also the relatively poor binding.

Overall Book Score: very good