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8th out of 109 books
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33 voters
A Kiss for Little Bear (Little Bear #5)
In 1957, Harper published its first I Can Read title, Little Bear, written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Large type, simple vocabulary, chapter-like divisions, and decorative pictures made Little Bear perfect for emerging readers
Paperback, I Can Read, 32 pages
Published
April 18th 1984
by HarperCollins
(first published 1968)
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Little Bear’s circular story begins in the illustrations on the title page, drawing a Wild Things-styled picture that his friend Hen takes to Little Bear’s grandmother. In return laughing Grandmother asks Hen to take a kiss back to Little Bear and the fun really begins. How the kiss is relayed from Hen to a series of unlikely and amusing animals is pure delight! In the end, two skunks get caught up in a kiss exchange until the exasperated Hen gets the kiss back for final delivery to Little Bear...more
Although this falls into the Beginning Reader genre there is little enough text per page that it can be used successfully in a story time for pre-school age children. It is a delightful circular story, meaning it ends where it begins.
Little Bear paints a picture and sends it with Hen to give to his grandmother. Grandmother enjoys it so much that she gives Hen a kiss to take to Little Bear. The kiss goes from Hen to Frog to Cat to Skunk. The kiss goes back and forth between two skunks several tim...more
Little Bear paints a picture and sends it with Hen to give to his grandmother. Grandmother enjoys it so much that she gives Hen a kiss to take to Little Bear. The kiss goes from Hen to Frog to Cat to Skunk. The kiss goes back and forth between two skunks several tim...more
Feb 27, 2012
Kathryn
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5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Kathryn by:
Chandra
Shelves:
childrens-picture-books,
valentines-day
Love this book! I hadn't read any of the Little Bear books in ages (maybe since I was a kid?) but now I want to read the entire series. I just loved the fun, the humor, the easy flow of the story and the beautiful illustrations that are at once so accurate in portraying animals looking like real animals yet also with the most telling expressions. Oh, gosh! The exasperated expressions on the animals just cracked me up. This is at once a very sweet, very funny story that can be appreciated on many...more
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I had no idea this was part of a series. (My library is lacking in a few areas.) Now that I know I'll have to order the first 4 books since this is apparently the 5th.
We both really liked this little story and I loved the fact that 90% of the words are words Julia already knows how to read and spell.
Enough people have gone over the description of the book so I won't venture there. I will say it's a great book for younger kids learning to read - there are a lot of easy words like 'it', 'is', 'am'...more
We both really liked this little story and I loved the fact that 90% of the words are words Julia already knows how to read and spell.
Enough people have gone over the description of the book so I won't venture there. I will say it's a great book for younger kids learning to read - there are a lot of easy words like 'it', 'is', 'am'...more
Maurice Sendak illustrated this wonderful book.
Little Bear paints a picture for Grandmother. The hen takes the picture of a wild thing to Grandmother, who gives the hen a kiss to take to Little Bear.
Then the kiss is passsed from hen to frog to cat to skunk. As the kissing goes back and forth from skunk to skunk, Little Bear is pictured peeking over a fence, at the end of the fence, and at the other end of the fence.
Finally the hen takes the kiss and delivers it to Little Bear.
The book ends...more
Little Bear paints a picture for Grandmother. The hen takes the picture of a wild thing to Grandmother, who gives the hen a kiss to take to Little Bear.
Then the kiss is passsed from hen to frog to cat to skunk. As the kissing goes back and forth from skunk to skunk, Little Bear is pictured peeking over a fence, at the end of the fence, and at the other end of the fence.
Finally the hen takes the kiss and delivers it to Little Bear.
The book ends...more
This circular story is a great choice for a beginning reader. Because the words on the page match very closely to the illustrations, it would be easy for readers to gain clues if they get stumped on a word. The plot itself, with the exception of the last few pages, is predictable and goes in an order that makes sense to the reader. The wedding surprise at the end of the story will also be enjoyable for young readers. I do think young readers would enjoy this story because they can relate to the...more
My favorite of the "Little Bear" series, it's actually the least sentimental despite the title. Follow the kiss's journey from Little Bear's grandmother back to Little Bear, as the animals are ultimately too lazy or distracted to do it themselves. Hen is downright hilarious: "Too much kissing!" The drawings are surprisingly straightforward (yet still marvelously detailed) for Maurice Sendak. Youngsters will love the realistic animals, possibly even kissing them when appropriate. (My son LOVES ki...more
Apr 01, 2009
Melissa
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Do with puppets.
“This picture makes me happy”, said Little Bear.
“Hello, Hen. This picture is for Grandmother. Will you take it to her, Hen?”
“Yes I will”, said Hen.
Grandmother was happy. “This kiss is for Little Bear”, she said.
“Will you take it to him, Hen?”
“I will be glad to,” said Hen.
Then Hen saw her friend Frog. She stopped to chat.
“Hello, Frog. I have a kiss for Little Bear. It is from his grandmother. Will you take it to him, Frog?”
“Sure” said Frog
Here’s the kiss, said Hen.
Frog hopped off...more
“This picture makes me happy”, said Little Bear.
“Hello, Hen. This picture is for Grandmother. Will you take it to her, Hen?”
“Yes I will”, said Hen.
Grandmother was happy. “This kiss is for Little Bear”, she said.
“Will you take it to him, Hen?”
“I will be glad to,” said Hen.
Then Hen saw her friend Frog. She stopped to chat.
“Hello, Frog. I have a kiss for Little Bear. It is from his grandmother. Will you take it to him, Frog?”
“Sure” said Frog
Here’s the kiss, said Hen.
Frog hopped off...more
Mar 29, 2012
Julie Graham 47150
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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This is another great story in the Little Bear chapter book series for emergent readers. In this one, Little Bear sends his grandmother a picture that he drew. After Hen delivers it, Grandmother is so pleased that she sends a kiss back to Little Bear. The kisses ends up being passed on from friend to friend and arriving to Little Bear "telephone" style. I thought the ending was sweet. My students, however, thought the ending was funny!
This book is about a little bear who drew a picture for his grandma and gave to it to hen to deliver to her. Grandma then gave hen a kiss to give to the bear; the hen gave the kiss to another animal to be delivered and the kiss kept being passed around...
I like the humor in this book and the simplicity. The story also has a happy ending. This story is a great one to be reenacted by children.
I like the humor in this book and the simplicity. The story also has a happy ending. This story is a great one to be reenacted by children.
Oct 05, 2009
Dolly
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their children
This is a cute story in the "Little Bear" series. Little Bear draws a picture for his grandmother and uses Hen to deliver it. She is then sent to deliver a kiss to Little bear and the kiss is transferred from one creature to another until it finally gets to Little Bear. The ending is a little disjointed, but it's a sweet book to read aloud with children. I kiss them each time the kiss is passed along.
Genre: Picture book
Reading Level: Early
Topics & Themes: Animals of the forest.
Curricular Use: Read aloud or shared reading.
Literary Elements: Personification. Circular plot: picture travels from Little Bear to Grandmother, kiss travels back to Little Bear from Grandmother.
Text & Pictures: Interaction. Illustrations only make use of black, white, and green.
Reading Level: Early
Topics & Themes: Animals of the forest.
Curricular Use: Read aloud or shared reading.
Literary Elements: Personification. Circular plot: picture travels from Little Bear to Grandmother, kiss travels back to Little Bear from Grandmother.
Text & Pictures: Interaction. Illustrations only make use of black, white, and green.
This is the last in the phenomenal Little Bear series and possibly my favorite. I do think the illustrations in this are the strongest of all five books. They are detailed and expressive and I could gaze at them forever. And the story of a traveling kiss is one of the sweetest things on the planet! I also love the disgruntled look on Mr. Skunk's face on the last page! Ha!
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Little Bear books are "An I CAN READ book". Early readers will enjoy the many adventures of Little Bear's in this series of books. In A Kiss for Little Bear he sends his grandma a picture. She sends back a thank-you kiss that gets passed on to him by many animals, starting and ending with the Hen. The stories are warm and humorous and the illustrations are very detailed.
I have loved all the Little Bear series ever since I happened upon them and read them to my kids thirty-some years ago. They are gentle stories of the deep love and bonding between a mother and child, and of the learning process a child goes through on the way to adulthood.
Very cute. I love how the kiss is passed from animal to animal on its way from Grandmother to Little Bear. My favorite part is when the boy skunk passes the kiss to a pretty girl skunk, who passes it back to him, who passes it back to her...
When I was younger- very young, as in three- we had this book on cassette. Sigourney Weaver voiced it, and I would always say "A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver". I loved this book. I still love this book. When I have children, they will love this book.
We have been so smitten with Little Bear that we are just reading the books over and over and finally purchased the four books that we didn't already own to give the library a break.
I don't usually add the kids books I read, but this one was on a list of "most underrated" books on goodreads and Charlotte and I love it. Plus it has illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
A favorite growing up. These are sweet, simple little stories about love and friendship, without the extremely heavy-handed moralistic tones that some picture books suffer from.
Read this to Kindergarten for Valentine's Day. A kiss intended for Little Bear from his grandmother is passed from animal to animal. Skunks get married. It's adorable.
Little bear is the gentlest of characters. The illustrations, too, exhibit a light touch. My children and I enjoyed this book over, and over for a number of years.
A very cute story. I remember watching the cartoon on Nickelodeon when I was a child, but I had no idea it was based on this series, let alone drawn by Maurice Sendak.
One of Daddy's books that Charlotte is finally old enough to appreciate. She likes it - she's big into anthropomorphic animals lately. Maurice Sendak illustrated this.
The artwork that Little Bear makes for his grandmother sets off a chain of kissing in the forest. He serves as best man in the skunk marriage.
One of my all time favorite stories from childhood. One day Little Bear asks Hen to deliver a drawing to his Grandmother. His Grandmother is so pleased, she asks Hen to deliver a kiss to Little Bear to thank him for his thoughtfulness. Hen begrudgingly agrees, but along the way passes the kiss to someone else to deliver. The kiss then continues to get passed along from animal to animal each promising its delivery to Little Bear. Maurice Sendak contributed the most beautiful illustrations to this...more
Simple messages that remind me of being at peace. Of a time when character was paramount and The Family Guy never happened.
I've always loved this book. It's probably all the kisses that got to me. In combination with Sendak's drawings.
Bryce and I read this today. He's learning to read and enjoyed me reading the Little Bear Stories to him.
I read and read and re-read LIttle Bear as a child. Very fond memories of this precious tale.
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Else Holmelund Minarik is the author of the Little Bear series of children's books, which were successful as books, and were also made into a successful children's TV series. The Little Bear books sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.
Else Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!
She was born in Denmark, and with her family immigrated to the United States...more
More about Else Holmelund Minarik...
Else Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!
She was born in Denmark, and with her family immigrated to the United States...more
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