The Bear Under The Stairs

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This book is a short story about a boy who believes there is a big brown grizzly bear living under the stairs in his house.

This is a classic tale of one little boy and his attempts to deal with his fear about the bear that lives under the stairs. When William's mom finally comes to his rescue to combat this scarey bear, he realizes maybe there wasn't a bear there after all. Poor William thinks he saw a bear under the stairs, and he figures he can keep it happy by feeding it regularly.Her books have been translated into over 25 languages and won many awards including the Smarties Prize children's choice and the Library Association Kate Greenaway Medal - twice. For KS1 there are lots of great examples of alliteration “bacon, bananas, bread”; “hazelnuts, haddock and honey” – children could add to the list or choose different letters and list alliterative food items that could be fed to the bear! Her books have been translated into 26 languages and won many awards including the Library Association Kate Greenaway Medal – twice. This could be used to encourage children that any fears or problems they have can be overcome when shared with others.

A lovely short story with beautiful illustrations about a young boy dealing with a common fear for things lurking in the dark.Children will also understand the power of imagination as it features in this story – is there really a bear under the stairs? For any child with fears of dark places in your own home, this book might help them to see that their fears are all in their imagination. This book is certainly ideal for a classroom wherein the promotion of discussion is hoping to be established. Because of the importance and detail in the pictures this book could only be used when the child/ren were able to really see in detail at the pictures – so individually or in small groups.

The illustrations are done in soft watercolors and do well to represent Williams’s imaginary fears using a dark, shadowy, smudgy technique at times. The Bear Under the Stairs is about a young boy who believes there’s a bear living in the storage closet beneath the stairs.However, in using it with youth, I didn't want there to be crayon marks and tears on the pages as some of the reviews noted. As the story is told in rhyme and uses alliteration, it is a great way for children to review certain phonemes, particularly different ways to make the /a/ sound. Fearing the bear will want to eat him if he gets hungry, William brings the bear food every day, tossing it in quickly with his eyes shut tight. He is utterly convinced that the bear will gobble him up if he doesn't feed it, so every day he carefully opens the door, throws in some food and slams it shut quickly - wham, bang, thump! e. the name of the various food and fruits that William feeds the bear) is easy to teach with the use of this text.

Helen Cooper is a British children's author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as 'The Bear Under the Stairs', the 'Pumpkin Soup' trilogy of books, 'The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed', 'Tatty-Ratty', 'Saving the Butterfly' (illustrated by Gill Smith) and 'The Taming of the Cat' which is published in October 2023. However, after recently reading it to a class, one child pointed out to me that the bear is actually hidden behind the door of cellar when Williams’s mother decides to investigate! When I read this with my 3-year-old nephew, we talk about options the little boy has to deal with the 'bear. This is a great book to help any young child who harbours fears of thinking there are strange things going on in the house.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This is what the story builds up for the audience to believe but then we are contradicted once again and the existence of the bear is confirmed.