Alphabears: An ABC Book	Kathleen Hague
Ask Mr. Bear	Marjorie Flack
Bear Called Paddington (A)	Michael Bond
Bears	Ruth Krauss
Bear's Bicycle (The)	Emilie W. McLeod
Bears Counting Book (The)	Robin and Jocelyn Wild
Bear's Toothache (The)	David McPhail
Bear Who Wanted To Be A Bear (The)	Jorg Steiner
Bearymore	Don Freeman
Berenstain Bears (many books)	J. & S. Berenstain
Biggest Bear (The)	Lynda Ward
Black Bear Adventures	Mary Lewis Haissen
Black Bear Cub
Blueberries For Sal	Robert McCloskey
Book of Bears (A)	Michael Bond
Brown Bear, Brown Bear	Bill Martin Jr.
Corduroy	Don Freeman
Friendly Bear	Robert Bright
Going On A Bear Hunt
Goldilocks and the Three Bears	A Classic Fairy Tale
Hairy Bear	Joy Cowley
Honey Paw
Hound and Bear	Dick Gackenback
How Teddy Bears Are Made	A. Morris-K. Heyman
Ira Sleeps Over
It's The Bear	Jez Alborough
Jamberry	Bruce Degen
Little Polar Bear	Haas De Beers
Lost Bear, Found Bear
Magic Teddy Bear	Stella Farris
Moon Dance	Frank Ashe
Moon Game	Frank Ashe
More from Hound and Bear	Dick Gackenback
A Pocket for Corduroy	Don Freeman
Polar Bear, Polar Bear	Bill Martin Jr.
Popcorn	Frank Ashe
Sleepy Bear	Lydia Dabcovich
Teddybears 1 to 10	Susanna Gretz
Ten Bears in My Bed	Stan Mack
Three Bears (The)	Paul Galdone
Three Blairs (The)
Visit to the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory	A. Morris-K. Heyman
When Winter Comes
Where Did The Brown Bear Go
Where Do Bears Sleep?	B. Hazen
Where Are All The Grizzly Bears
Where's My Teddy	Jez Alborough
Winnie the Pooh (many books)	A.A. Milne
Winter Bear (The)	Ruth Craft
Wish Again, Big Bear	Richard J. Margolis

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activities

• Draw favorite character and make a graph.
• Do color recognition activities.
• Consult encyclopedia or other factual books and learn about real brown bears.
• Write each word on individual cards or sentence strips cut to size. Then the kids can practice "being the words" while you read the book together, matching their words with the text in the book.
• Take word cards in Math center and count how many letters are in that word then place in the appropriate numbered container.
• Play a name game with teddy bear - "Cuddles, Cuddles," who do you see, I see **** looking at me. 

 Corduroy activities

• Have the children draw a picture of where they imagine Corduroy's missing button to be. Then they glue a button on the picture.
• Do a treasure hunt using store pamphlets.
• Practice situation words: front, back, top, bottom, right, left. Worksheet
• Write a small book report. Worksheet

 Goldilocks and the Three Bears activities

• Discuss the forest, how bears live.
• Have the children draw a picture of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
• Use picture cards or puppets to retell the story. Picture cards, Picture cards 1, and Picture cards 2.
• Write a small text about the story. Bed, Chair

 Hairy Bear Activities

• Make a bear sack puppet.
• Change the beginning sound of the nonsense words and make new nonsense words.
• Act out and practice reading with expression.
• Make biscuit bears. Each child needs two refrigerator biscuits. Leave one alone. That is the head. Cut the other biscuit in half and make a snout. Cut the half of biscuit in half again and make two ears. Cut a maraschino cherry in half and put half in each ear. Use raisins for the eyes and nose. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and bake according to biscuit directions until brown.

 Jamberry activities:

• Have students make up a new nonsense berry and display or make into a class book.
• Make up a dance to the Jamberry song (on tape from Scholastic).
• Have a jam tasting party with the four berry flavors listed in the book and Ritz crackers.
• Have students draw their favorite berry and make a class graph.

 Little Polar Bear activities

• Children can learn about polar bear habitat by reading this fictitious story. Talk about why polar bears are white and where they live.
• Learn more about polar bears from other books or encyclopedias.
• Try this camouflage activity: Use colored toothpicks and scatter them in the grass. Give the children a short time to pick up as many as they can. Graph the results. Why are there fewer green ones?

 A Pocket for Corduroy activities

• Decorate a paper bear with fabric overalls and scraps of trim, buttons, and a contrasting pocket. The children can slip their own ideas for their bears' names, or his name, into the pocket.

 Polar Bear, Polar Bear activities

• Make a polar bear painting. You will need a sheet of white paper and a white bear cutout for each student. Glue the cut out to the paper with ONE drop of glue. Then sponge paint around the edge of the cut out bear to the edge of the paper. Let dry. Peel off the bear cutout and you should have a white bear shape on the page. Children can add a face with black crayon.