Very cute

it was a really good childrens book i read it when i was younger like so many time

I have read this at least 5x per day (Monday thru Friday) for the last month since I added it to my classroom bookshelf, and so I feel justified in adding it as my last book to make my reading challenge this year.

Genuinely though, this book is incredible. I have never met a child of any age who didn't love it. It has been everyone's favorite, from my storytime kids years ago to the not-quite-two year olds I was nannying last year to my whole class of three year old Korean kids now. It's magic. Everyone everywhere loves it.

Bilingual edition of a funny story of a little mouse who is trying to hide a ripe strawberry from a big hungry bear - nice art. I still read bilingual books in Spanish hoping against hope to one day be able to have a basic conversational competency - but that will probably never happen.

A cute story but I feel like something is missing! Oh wait - where is the big hungry bear?

My son's favorite book. The ending...I think you could interpret it two ways, and it sort of pesters me that either the reader or the bear (the shadow at the end) could be the "person" who shares the strawberry, it makes me wish it was more clear, but it's totally an aggravation on my part. This is the go to book for my 3 year old, all he has to do is spot it and it's the book he'll choose, and if you ask him to get one, it's this. I'd say that makes it a 5 even though I wish the ending was clearer, yet still fun to read.

Reading Level: 1.5
Summary: This book tells the story of how a mouse picks a strawberry and learns about the hungry bear that likes strawberries. The mouse has to decide what to do about the bear and what to do with the strawberry.
Characteristics that Support the Genre- simple words, colorful pictures that entice the reader
Idea- There is one topic and that topic stays with the whole story. The strawberry is the focus and hiding from the bear is the main idea throughout the book.
Voice- This book could be used to talk about breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the characters in the book. This book also demonstrates speaking in first person, like the audience is one of the characters.
Other Suggestions- This book could be used while teaching in conjunction with a problem solving and sharing unit. Teaching students about how to solve a problem and what other options they will or could have found or used. This book could also be used as an example of how to demonstrate sharing, that in the end the best option was to share.

Scaring and deceiving a cute, tiny mouse by making him share his food with an ominous narrator—what’s not to love? A humorously, twisted take on the tortoise and the hare where the hare learns how to wield mind control over the tortoise to remain lazy and still win the prize.

I read this book more for nostalgia than anything else. I still love it just as much as I did when I was kid.

Odd message, but the art is just too good.

I've read this book in storytimes several times now and it's always a hit. Once, after I'd read it at the beginning of a storytime, I had a little boy asking me to read it again throughout the rest of the storytime.

A favorite family friends would read aloud to my kids at their house ! Great illustrations toy with perspective and narrative point of view