Still, I'm probably overthinking things! There's plenty of mileage in the story as it is for repeated readings for children who just enjoy the havoc bear creates.Įven if the story failed me a little, the illustrations are just lovely.
His upset is fairly predictable, and so it would have been nice to have a twist at the end to flip things back into favour for the other animals somehow. He comes across as something of a bully, barging in and ruining everyone's fun! I'm certainly aware that this is exactly how a real bear would behave, but somehow in the story the lack of comeuppance felt, to me, like an issue. The issue I have with it is Bear himself. The plot is easy to follow, and even very little children will be understand the idea of things that make you happy, and then having those things ruined! But as Bear arrives to ruin everything, the phrase is repeated, but this time with the emphasis on the word was! I thought this was the cleverest part of the book. As we are introduced to each animal, and why their day is perfect, we are told for example it was a perfect day for cat.
This is a very simple story, with a clever repetition trick. But, what's this? Here comes bear, lumbering into the garden to eat the corn cob, splash in the water and squash all the flowers! It's a lovely sunny day, and looks as if it may just turn out to be a perfect day, since there is a sunny spot for cat in the flowers, and a paddling pool for dog to cool off in, and bird food in the bird feeder, and a corn cob for squirrel. Summary: Oh dear, here is a bear who is not very nice, and just when everyone is having the perfect day, he lumbers in to spoil everything!
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