Children Make Terrible Pets | 
“I guess some critters just aren't meant to be pets.“
This picture book can engage students in discussions about perspectives in stories and whether they think that they would like to be kept as a pet.
This picture book can engage students in discussions about perspectives in stories and whether they think that they would like to be kept as a pet.
pickPicture book. The composition and sketched design of this book helps to create a warm atmosphere in the bears' home. The wooden backgrounds behind the pages make the book seem vintage, a callback to the classic tale of a child finding a wild animal and attempting to keep it as a pet. This witty book follows a bear and her newly found pet, a human boy.
pickTitle: Children Make Terrible Pets
Author: Peter Brown
Illustrator: Peter Brown
Published: September 7th, 2010
Genre: fiction and humor
Awards: E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers
Summary: This is a story about a little bear who finds a little boy in the woods. the little bear brings the boy home and the bears mother say “children make terrible pets.“
pickStumbled across this one by chance while at my work, and it‘s TOO adorable!!
Lucy the Bear comes across Squeaker the Human, and so wants to keep him as her pet! Her mom says as long as she is responsible for him and takes care of him.
A great twist for a story, and the students I read it to loved it as much as me!
