Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see? Written by Bill Martin and Illustrated by Eric Carle

Brown Bear, Brown Bear is a great book for little hands, especially in board-book form. The story line is repetitive and helps a young child to anticipate the story’s direction. Eric Carle’s illustrations and use of bright colors also make it a useful book for introducing animal names, sounds, and color.

Target ages: infants and toddlers

Interactive components: acting out animal sounds and labeling animals and colors.

This is also a great book to “sequence” by allowing the students to recite back the order that we see the animals.

With older children, perhaps asking questions that distinguish fantasy from reality such as “A blue horse? Do you think there are blue horses?”