Featured Company:

Teddy Bears' Picnic (Aladdin Picture Books)

Today's shopping tips: "Be wise in purchasing ..... find best value one"

---

Manufacturer: Aladdin
List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $3.50
You Save: $ 4.49 ( 56% )
(prices subject to change)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Average Ratings:

Here's everyone's favorite teddy bear song with endearing pictures by the popular illustrator of Good Dog, Carl.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421640268
EAN: 9780689835308
ISBN: 0689835302
Label: Aladdin
Manufacturer: Aladdin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher: Aladdin
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Studio: Aladdin


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Teddy Bear's Picnic
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Classic Board Books)
• The Teddy Bears' Picnic
• The Teddy Bears' Picnic Board Book and Tape (My First Book and Tape)
• Bill Shontz - Teddy Bear's Greatest Hits


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Comparison with the Jerry Garcia/David Grisman/ Bruce Whatley Board Book Version
Comment: If you can't decide bwtween this and the somewhat "hippie" version adapted by Jerry Garcia andDavid Grisman (with illustrations by Bruce Whatley), I hope this review might help you.

Gosh, that roundish, friendly bear looks familiar! He's wearin these Jerry Garcia glasses, with a wizzened-white Jerry Garcia beard, and strums both an electric and an acoustic guitar! Real aficionados might even see a resemblance to string player David Grisman, a leaner bear with matching black "T" and a very fine looking banjo.

Yes, it's Garcia and Grisman's foray into kiddy lit, and while they appear on only a few pages (and the board book has no accompanying CD), their presence is felt in the other bears taking the woods-road to a grand picnic. THey're free-spiried and diverse (teddies,koalas, and pandas, and black bears and brown) and wear disguises (a sailor shirt, a pig snout) and free-flowing scarves and hats and , and bright 60's vests. Tqo ainga cross to from thw word "Woodstock," and while there are no naked bears holding hands in a river... it is a frolicosme gathering:

"Beneath the trees, where nobody sees/THey'll hide and seek as long as they please."

However, the text is an adaptation of a 1947 text by John W. Bratton and Jimmy Kennedy, and if you read carefully, you;ll pick up on some subverively conservative strictures. Only GOOD bears can go this picnic, it seems, and though they're having a "lovely" time on their picnic, there's a mysterious (and somewhat cryptic ) reference to dangers lurking in the forest. Towards the end of this playful, and cutely illustrated board book (the wonderful Bruce Whatley), there's a somewhat sinister verse:

"If yo ugo down to the woods today
You better not go alone
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home"

Maybe this just relects the creeping fears of a tired young bear at the endof a grand picnic, but it makes little sense to me, not is it consistent with the overall tone of the book. I dount your little one is going to notice, but I can't help but wonder if the publishers could have chosen to omit this abrupt and unexplained warning...

Overall, it's a nicely illustrated boardbook, and bear lovers will especially warm to it. However, the original tune clashes a bit with the 60's ethos, and the phrases can be awkward when not sung. Although I haven't heard this "all-time favorite song" (from the back cover), a combination book/CD might be a better way to enjoy this new/old offering.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Brings Back Memories
Comment: I was a child of the 50's in England, and remember singing "Teddy Bear's Picnic" back then. I don't remember seeing a book but sang the song many times as a child. I was thrilled when Green Tiger Press published the book when my son was born in the 80's -- now bought out by Simon & Schuster. I have the original version that came boxed with a cassette tape. I was hoping to buy some for my nieces and nephew's children but updated with a CD. I hope someone gets the word out to the publisher to update it so they can play it in current formats. The song is so lovely, the book is only half of it! In San Diego, the Westgate Hotel periodically does "Teddy Bear's Picnic" teas for children.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Teddy Bears' Picnic Book
Comment: Book was packaged properly and was received in great shape and in a timely manor as promised.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Disturbing
Comment: I recieved this book as a gift for my son and dont think it will be in our reading rotation. The artwork is disturbing and sort of scarry. If you want to scare your child into not going outside or near the woods then this is the book for you. Otherwise stay away from teddy bear picnic.

Customer Rating:
Summary: easy to read
Comment: nice colorfull illustrations and the song phrases are paired together on a page to allow the reader to allow more time on a single page rather than having to turn pages in the middle of the sentence.

---

NOTE: All online transactions are processed at Amazon.com's secure server, using the latest technology on internet's secure transactions.
| Children's Books | Children Education | Parenting |