Bear on the Train

by Julie Lawson

Book Overview

One fall day, a bear follows the smell of grain down a mountain and onto a hopper car on a mile-long freight train. Nobody sees him but Jeffrey, who shouts at him to get off the train. The bear pays... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550745603
• ISBN13: 9781550745603
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A Boy, a Bear, and the Inevitability of the Seasons

This is one of those books you want on your shelves for any 4 - 8 year olds in the house. Boys, in particular, would identify with the story. It's a gentle, though unsentimental tale of bear meets trainline, while a boy looks on. No, the furry fellow doesn't meet his maker because of this interaction. Rather, this particular bear takes advantage of a ready-made den and food supply on board a train car, as it travels the very long and beautiful distance across the Canadian mountains and prairies. The accompanying illustrations are absolutely wonderful. My own two small boys love the poetic chant repeated whenever the bear and his train pull into town. My older child brought it into his grade one classroom when the topic of hibernation was on the roster; all 25 classmates clamoured for another reading, and another.