The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin
by Stan and Jan Berenstain
I have to admit that even though Amber has long outgrown them, I still enjoy a visit to Bear Country occasionally. Papa Bear has grown a big pumpkin and is entering it into the annual contest during Bear Country Thanksgiving Festival. Sadly it doesn’t win, but the Bear family learns a lesson about the true spirit of the holiday and about all they have to be thankful for.
Papa Bear acts like a kid himself a lot of the time, this time getting so wrapped up in winning and his pumpkin that he forgets about everything else. He even trespasses on a neighbor’s farm to get at peak at “The Monster,” a rival pumpkin. (Can pumpkins be rivals?) So the lesson learned is for him too, not just the cubs.
It’s cute and just what I expected from a Berenstain Bears story.
Purchase at an Indie Bookstore.
32 pages
First published 1990
Berenstain Bear series
3 out of 5 stars
Challenges: 100+
I borrowed my copy from the library and the above is my honest opinion. I am an Amazon and Indiebound affiliate.
You can’t beat the Berenstain Bears!
awwwww….berenstain bears are too cute. I used to read these to my kids.
Having Gage is a great excuse to read all of my favorites again and again, including da Bears!
i LOVED the berenstein bears when i was little. i’m still sad i never collected all of them.