The Big Honey Hunt

A wonderful and timeless book for kids. If you have kids or grandchildren you need this book to read to them.

My 2-year-old loves seeing Papa Bear get into trouble. We already had the Bear's Christmas, the Bear's Vacation and the Bear's Picnic, and she loves those too. The punch line, where Papa decides the best honey comes from the store he passed in the beginning, is lost on her but she looks forward to all the animals coming out of all the non-honey-trees to attack poor Papa.

The Berenstains should be remembered for their beginning reader books of the sixties and early seventies. Back then, the drawing style was more free, the stories were simple but clever, and the bears were a memorably comic tour de force. (In latter years they became cranked-out and preachy, and dealt with all sorts of issues in longer picture books and novels. Bah.) What child has ever completely forgotten the impages of their early adventures? In this, their first book, we meet Papa Bear, the bluff but incompetent teacher, and his son, the woshipful pupil who is actually smarter than the teacher. Off they go with a bucket to get some real honey from bees, eschewing the store next to their house. A series of comic misadventures ensure, climaxing with the bears being chased by a swarm of bees and hiding underwater. They return home to buy honey the easy way, as Mama told them to do in the first place. Funny, concise, and still fun after all these years - such are the early Berenstain Bears.

This was one of my favorite books as a child. By the time my nephew was 1 yrs old he could do the "BZZZZ" part without being cued. Now, I've been reading it to my son, and he's beginning to read it back to me. There's just something very "comforting" about this book. I'm finally breaking down to buy a second copy, as my orignal copy is in many pieces and don't think it will survive long enough for our 2nd child to enjoy it.

This story is a fun adventure with lots of expressive illustrations and easy-to-read words. With 61 pages, a child really feels like he's accomplished something when he finishes this book. Small Bear and Dad Bear go in search of honey. Mother tells them to go to the honey store, but Dad Bear has a better idea. They go in search of a honey tree. One mishap after another, they finally find their honey - only, where a bear finds honey, he also finds BEES.Dad is clever, though, and they manage to escape unscathed... and they come home with honey, too!A fun book, and great for beginning readers.

This book is another that was a favorite of mine as a child and that my son (2 yrs.) loves. We read "honey" every night. He likes to point out the bee on every page. The story of Dad showing his son how to find honey is a cute one.