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The Bear Under The Stairs

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This book would be suitable for children slightly older in Key Stage 1 (aged 5-7 years) as they are more likely to have that understanding in place picking up that the story is about the boy’s imagination. Helen Cooper is an author and illustrator whose work includes classic titles such as The Bear Under the Stairs, Pumpkin Soup, The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed and Tatty Ratty. Overall I think that this would be a good book to read aloud to young students and could get a few "ohh's" and "aww's" during story time.

This is what the story builds up for the audience to believe but then we are contradicted once again and the existence of the bear is confirmed. This heighten the feeling of fear of the unknown as experienced by William, as well as giving the reader time and space to focus on the detailed illustrations. The rhyming is fun and the illustrations adorable, definitely a book that I'll be reading to my own children in the future. Eventually a stench begins to waft out of the place under the stairs and William’s “bear” is discovered. Although the book is full of beautiful (sometimes scary) illustrations and visual descriptions, I thought it was a very difficult story for young children to make sense of.She has also written and illustrated children’s MG fiction and the latest – The Taming of the Cat – published in October 2023. Unfortunately it teaches entirely the wrong moral: that there are no monsters lurking in darkness, waiting for us.

This is a great book to help any young child who harbours fears of thinking there are strange things going on in the house.Find out what happens when a nastly smell pervades the house and Mum and William decide to investigate . However, in using it with youth, I didn't want there to be crayon marks and tears on the pages as some of the reviews noted. She was born in 1963 and grew up in the far North of England in a very rural area where milk came from the farm in a can, bears lived under the stairs, and it rained a great deal.

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