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CM . . .
. Volume IX Number 3. . . . October 4, 2002
excerpt:
The Bear on the Bed is a risque, cautionary tale about a
little girl's unexpected, summertime encounter with a carefree, fun-loving
bear who waltzes into her cabin and settles himself comfortably on
her bed for a snooze. Recommended. Wayne Serebrin teaches Language and Literacy in the Faculty of Education, the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
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In
lilting rhymes - hilariously extended in the acrylics illustrations
by Bill Slavin - the reader dances from page to page imagining the
outrageous antics in which a bear at summer camp could have or should
have participated. But this is not how this high-spirited
bear chooses to entertain himself. Instead, he bedevils the little
girl as she peers in the window and catches him plucking his banjo,
dancing, jumping, and bouncing on her bed. And then, as if it is not
bad enough that he swings from the cabin's rafters, this naughty,
old bear has to go and leave behind a gross, calling card typical
of a real bear in the woods. Foul! Disgusting! Giggling kids will
love predicting and confirming what the bear has done on the little
girl's camp bed, as their wide-open eyes follow her unflinching march
to the cabin door, protected by a gas mask and rubber flippers and
armed with a shovel and scrub brush. The story will appeal to the
toilet humour fascination of young children.