Review: "the incredible world of bears" -- an excellent book about bears that children will love !!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Emma Child has released a wonderful, educational children’s book for children that teaches kids so much about those beautiful, powerful animals we call bears. Emma obviously writes with love and admiration for bears; her writing style will engage young children and kids can happily bond with adults as they read this book together! Vocabularies of children will also be enhanced as they read this book and that’s grand. I should also note that the numerous color photographs make the book quite special and one that any child will enjoy from beginning to end—what a fun way for kids to learn about these special creatures!There’s so much information about bears in this book; I’m amazed at how Emma Child is able to say so much in a relatively short book as she uses an engaging writing style that will captivate her readers! Even this big kid loved the book! Emma starts out with ‘The Bear Basics;” we learn that there are different types of bears and that they are diurnal “which means that they stay awake during the day and sleep at night, although they have been known to hunt after dark, as well.” The reader will also discover that most bears live in the Northern Hemisphere and the polar bear “lives in the Arctic.” Among many other basic facts about bears, Emma Child lets readers know that bears have excellent hearing, smell and eyesight all of which can help them hunt for food which includes meat but can also include “fruit, nuts and insects” among other things.We also learn about bears’ territory and how they attack—if they choose to attack and of course Emma mentions how many bears often hibernate through winter! There is a discussion of how bears reproduce (in general) and then Emma continues by writing about different types of bears including the American Black Bear which is the “most common kind of bear;” the Asian black bear (aka the “Moon Bear”); the panda bear; grizzly bears including the Kodiak bear; the “honey bear;” polar bears; sloth bears—and still more types of bears! (I would add so much more but I would hate to spoil it all for you.)As if all that weren’t enough, Emma Child ends her book with a list of facts about bears that amazed me and are likely to impress children as well. What an excellent book about bears! Great job, Emma—please, keep these magnificent books coming—I only wish I had such wonderful books about animals when I was a kid!