What Next, Baby Bear! Book

This book tells the story of a bear who finds household objects and turns them into a helmet, space boots and a rocket so he can go to the moon. On the way he encounters an owl who joins him on his journey. They land on the moon and have a picnic but eventually get bored, and thus decide to go back home. When he arrives home his mother does not believe him. A brilliant story about creativity and imagination.

After studying this book with a class of nursery children, I believe that it is great for introducing the topic of ‘space’ to the early years and introducing the correct terminology .It can also be a valuable resource for teaching positional language, (for example, the bear went up in the rocket) colour and object identification for nursery children. Overall a very engaging book which can be used to generate a lot of discussion, child-initiated activities and role plays. It provides a solid starting point for assessing communication, language and literacy (CLL), problem solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN), knowledge and understanding of the world (KUW) and other EYFS areas.