Reviews for Frankin's Bear

The average rating for Frankin's Bear based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-22 00:00:00 Cindy Maslen I need to first state that being from North America we have had little exposure to the Go Bananas Books. If it wasn't for the fact that my son and I are trying to track down all of Chris d'Lacey's books to read and review we might never have come across them. I believe there are Blue, Yellow and Red Banana books. Blue Bananas are simple stories for early readers, Red Bananas are bridging books for building confidence, and Yellow Bananas are early chapter books for nearly fluent readers. From what I have seen the Bananas books have spanned many publishers over time including Egmont, Mammoth, Crabtree, and Scholastic UK. These are wonderful books and it is thinks to being a fan of d'Lacey that our family has discovered them. My son now freaks out when there is a book sized package arrives in the mail. When this one arrived he freaked out because we had not read any Red Banana books yet! And though we have read and loved a few of the yellow and blue banana books both my youngest two loved this story. They loved that Franklin does everything with his bear, they love that the bear is alive and reminded them of Paddington. They loved the illustrations by Thomas Taylor. And they loved the story. My son in particular especially loved the safety tips at the end and the experiments. This is another great little book by Chris d'Lacey. It is an awesome little story. With excellent illustrations. And though we are getting towards the end of d'Lacey books to track down we will be expanding and bringing more Banana books into the house to read and then donate to the school library! (We have bought 2 copies of Dexter's Journey so we could keep one at home after we donated the first to the school library. That is how awesome these books are.) Read the review on my blog Book Reviews and More and reviews of other books by Chris d'Lacey. As well as an author profile and interview with Chris.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-04-30 00:00:00 Victor Segal Piper and her family are back! "Chief", aka Dad, is going away on ship duty, and Piper and her sisters and mother try to cope with their dad not being there. Piper has the idea to have a pet show so she can show off her mad dog-training skills to Chief when he comes back. But although Piper is determined, training Bruna is easier said than done. I wasn't as enthusiastic with this story as I was the last book, but it was still enjoyable. Anyone else get really irritated with Piper's teacher Ms. Gordon? Yeah, Piper's not an easy student, but come on, lighten up!