No Bad Bears (Ophelia's Book of Manners) - Hardcover

Grade 1-3-- Only a limited audience will enjoy these full-color photographs of elaborately posed teddy bears garbed as humans. Ophelia and her friends ladle out advice on becoming good little bears: when to say please and thank you, how to answer the telephone, how to use napkins, etc. The underlying theme is to behave so that grownup bears don't scold; while the bears are charming and the staging polished in the finest greeting card tradition, the message is too heavy-handed. For a humorous look at manners, depend on What Do You Say, Dear? (HarperCollins, 1958) by Sesyle Joslyn.
- Virginia Opocensky, formerly Lincoln City Libraries, NE
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