Great for Spring Cleaning

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	• The Berenstain Bears Clean House (I Can Read Book 1) HarperTrophy, 2005 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Great for Spring Cleaning

This book shows what can be done when everyone helps out during spring cleaning. The Bears start to collect items for their yard sale, but feel attached to the belongings. I found that I could relate to this book and what happens over the years of Spring cleaning.

Not a Great Ending

If you don't want to know the ending...stop reading now.

I love the Berenstain Bears and the lessons their stories teach, but this one doesn't have a great message. It starts off good with everyone having to realize that they need to get rid of some stuff and clean house. That's the good part. The bad part, they drag it out to their yard for a yard sale. They all whine that they don't want to part with their "junk" and then store it up in the attic for next year's spring cleaning. The message I got...Keep your junk and put off what you can till next time.

This book will go in our next yard sale for sure.

A better Berenstain Bear book on this topic is Too Much Stuff.

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An Entertaining Story

This is a very nice story for young children. It tells of the universal experience of cleaning out your attic but deciding that some of the "junk" up there is really a collection of family heirlooms. What to throw away and what to keep? My own family has been through this and this book is a good way to introduce the idea of how to make value judgements about material possessions.

It's time for spring cleaning and the Bear family decides to have a yard sale. Mama Bear goes through the house gathering up all sorts of tattered things ? but each tattered thing seems to be someone's favourite tattered thing! Perhaps spring cleaning will just have to wait until next year.

Ages 4?8

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