A Bare Bear: A book of words that sound the same

by Caz Hildebrand, Ashlea O'Neill (illustrator)

Meet a hare with huge hair and a bear who's, well, rather bare and other animals!

An introduction to homonyms and homophones.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2019

Reviews

[Becky B]

A bunch of animals (and one boy, and some fruit) are doing or exhibiting things that are either homophones or homonyms of their names.

The back of the book has a brief definition of homophone and homonym, and then kids can go back and read it again and see if they can pick out which is which. Simple but clever, and a great way to learn this bit of language arts. Pair this with Yaks Yak by Park for a good compare/contrast read and further practice identifying homophones and homonyms.

[Laura]

This book blew the mind of my 5 year old. It might be a little while before she understands this book. Lol. It also took us 10x longer to read because I had to explain everything. 🙄

[Freddie D]

One for the language lovers! A book full of homonyms and homophones with humorous accompanying illustrations.

[Sarah]

A fun book of homonyms and homophones for lower-grade kids. Can they create their own sentence after reading these?

[Natalie]

A fun book on homonyms and homophones with adorable pictures.

[Hamza]

I like this book because I learnd new words

[Barbara Band]

A book of homonyms including homophones and homographs. Bright amusing illustrations with each pair of words given a double-page spread. A book for discussion about words, meanings and sounds.