Eric the Math Bear

By Caroline Glicksman

Book Overview

Eric loves math. Eric loves counting. Eric loves numbers! He dreams about them all night and thinks about them all day. He even has a special job thinking up numbers to lock the safe at the Big Bear... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375824324
• ISBN13: 9780375824326
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.4" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Eric the Math Bear

I read this story to my son who is almost six years old. He really enjoyed having to find and count all the different things that Eric likes to count on his way to work. The pictures are very colorful and busy which helped keep his attention. There is a little violence that I was surprised by in the book. Two polar bears attempt to rob the bank that Eric works at, they call him "tomato face", and threaten to eat his new friend Erica. I felt that the book could have gone a much better direction than that. To me, those three events seemed a little unappropriate for younger readers. When the story was over, my son wanted to go back to the page where he had to find and count the different things Eric liked to count. I even had him find and count other items that were in the picture and he really enjoyed that as well. I liked how it helped him with his counting and how it challenged him to find the items I asked for.