Title: A Bad Day For Bear

Written and Illustrated by: Duncan Beedie

Published by: Templar Books

A Bad Day For Bear reunites readers with a character favourite from Duncan Beedie’s picture book The Bear Who Stared, which was shortlisted for the Waterstone Children’s Book Prize 2017 and No Sleep for Bear published by Templar Books in 2022.

Bear has an important job to do. He has to build the bonfire for the forest party. But he is having a bad day as he gets a splinter, a bump on the head, rained on and slips in a muddy puddle.

It takes a visit to his friend Frog to help put his problems into perspective. The illustrations are bold and simple with some brilliant facial expressions.

A Bad Day For Bear highlights an important message of how talking about your problems can help. It would be suitable for use in a PSHE lesson to encourage discussion on the children’s bad days and how their problems were solved. This book would also be ideal for stimulating memory games and literacy lessons on making lists.

With an underlying themes of being positive, A Bad Day for Bear is an ideal book for young readers at pre-school and in KS1.

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This book has previously been reviewed on Amazon .