Berenstain Bears!!

For my outside reading book this week, I decided to read one of my favorite children's book series, The Berenstain Bears. I read the The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone. This book is one of many in the series by Stan and Jan Berenstain. One of my favorite aspects of the book is that the Bear family lives in this very large tree. As a child, I always wanted to live in a tree. I also like the easy names for each of the characters: Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Brother Bear, Sister Bear, and Baby Bear. It makes it easy for children to remember. In the particular book that I read, Brother Bear and Sister Bear go to the Bear museum to see the new dinosaur exhibit. Detective Bear is there, helping the museum workers because there is a missing bone. Brother Bear and Sister Bear, with the help of their dog Snuff, decide to go out looking for the thief and the missing bone. In true children's book fashion, the children are successful in the knick of time, returning the bone to the exhibit right before it is set to open to the public (while embarking on a series of fun adventures). I know this was one of my favorite stories as a child because I liked when the characters were able to solve mysteries, no matter how big or small. The authors of the Berenstain Bears know exactly what kids want to read and make the stories fun bedtime anecdotes.