Author: Tracey Corderoy
Illustrator: Sophie Allsopp
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, December 1, 2012
Age: 4-8
Theme: Friends, Friendship
Opening: In an icy kingdom faraway, lived a little girl called Luna.
Summary: Luna and Bear are best friends. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. Everything they do, they do together. Luna and her polar bear friend (Bear) discover a beautiful gold flower growing in the snow. But when the flower fades, Bear goes on a search around the world for another to bring to Luna. It's only when he returns home that the true strength of their friendship is revealed.
Resources:
Ten Fun Winter Activities that goes with the book.
Make yellow paper flowers to stick in your snow-covered yard. Don't have snow? Create snow by gluing cotton balls to a cardboard box, then, add your yellow flowers.
Grow your own yellow flowers. Follow the instructions on the back of seed packets.
Learn about polar bears and their habitat, Enchanted Learning, BBC Nature Wildlife, Kidzone, and Polar Bears International.
Why I like the book:
Luna and Bear show children, in a gentle way, just what friendship really means. Children see that Luna and Bear love to do things together. When Bear gives Luna a special flower, she cherishes it. When the flower dies, Luna becomes very sad and Bear goes off to find her another one. What Bear doesn't know, is that Luna misses him very much and is sad that he is gone. She has a big surprise for him when he returns home.
1 comment:
What a beautiful story, Saba! The illustrations are lovely and your activities are perfect. I saw you had left a sweet comment on my comment about Susanna Leonard Hill on Kristen Fulton's TOOT about someone special post.. Susanna is the best!
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