Cari Meister - Brown Bears

Bullfrog Books let children
practice reading informational
text at the earliest reading
levels. Repetition, familiar
words, and photo labels
support early readers. Discuss the cover photo.
What does it tell them? Look at the picture glossary
together. Read and discuss
the words. Walk through the book
and look at the photos.
Let the child ask questions.
Point out the photo labels. Prompt the child to think more.
Ask: How are mother bears like
your parents? What would you
do if you saw a bear with her cubs? Bullfrog Books are published by Jump!
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reserved in all countries. Prompt the child to think more.
Ask: How are mother bears like
your parents? What would you
do if you saw a bear with her cubs? Bullfrog Books are published by Jump!
5357 Penn Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55419
www.jumplibrary.com Copyright 2015 Jump! International copyright
reserved in all countries.

No part of this book
may be reproduced in any form without written
permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meister, Cari, author. Brown bears / by Cari Meister. pages cm. (Bullfrog books. My first animal library) Audience: Age 5.

Audience: K to grade 3. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-62031-166-0 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-62496-253-0 (ebook) 1. Brown bear Juvenile literature. I. Title.

QL737.C27M453 2015 599.784dc23 2014032119 Series Editor: Wendy Dieker Series Designer: Ellen Huber Book Designer: Anna Peterson Photo Researcher: Casie Cook Photo Credits: All photos by Shutterstock
except: Corbis, ;
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. Printed in the United States of America at
Corporate Graphics in North Mankato, Minnesota.

Its winter. A brown bear sleeps. She is hibernating. A cub grows in her belly.

Soon, he is born. He is tiny.

cub He crawls up
his mamas fur. He drinks
her milk. He grows and grows. Spring is here.

Mama is hungry! The bears leave the den.

den Mama stands on two legs. Now she can see better. She sniffs. She smells fish
in the river! The bears walk to the river. Other bears are here. Other bears are here.

One growls at the cub. Mama shows her teeth. The bear runs away.

Salmon jump. Mama swats with her paw. salmon She gets a fish. salmon She gets a fish.

Yum!