Review: Excellent Imagination Stretcher for Pre-schoolers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
"Polar Brrr's Big Adventure: A Picture Reading Book for Young Children" by Bruce Lansky is an honest to goodness "picture reading" book. It has no words to the story, but it has very cute and nicely detailed drawings on each page, and those pictures tell the story. This book is made for young children (ages 3 to 6) who cannot yet read much, if at all. Yet they can look at the pictures drawn by Bill Bolton, and make up a story to go with them. The pictures are very appropriate for easy interpretation by kids who cannot read, and no doubt stretch the imagination of the kids while they make up the story.I think this concept is excellent. Based on the illustrations, Polar Brrr, a polar bear (duh!) starts by helping his mother wrap a gift box. He then takes the gift box outside and begins a long trek to deliver the box. He outwits a gang of wolves, narrowly escapes dropping the box into the ocean, swims on his back for awhile, climbs steep snowy hills, and finally reaches his destination and delivers what turns out to be a birthday present for another polar bear - a girl polar bear friend of his!I doubt there is a 3 year old alive who could not make up an entertaining story to fit the pictures. I recommend this book for the 3 to 6 year old children you would like to help expand their minds. It is sure to become a favorite with the pre-school set.