The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound! by Jan Berenstain

The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound! Reviews

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  Katt Hansen

  The cubs want to use the school as a skate park, but that doesn't work over summer when there's no one around to watch. But using Two-Tall's scary pseudo skate park means no safety equipment. Eek!
  
  What I love here was how the parents came together to help the cubs out by building them a really cool (and SAFE) park in an unused field. Yay for good parenting!
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  Karah

  Brother and Sister don't get the focus of the action in this one. Too-Tall Grizzly, the neighborhood bully, injures himself in a makeshift skate park. This proves to Brother and Sister Bear what Mama Bear's point about safety. Ultimately, Papa Bear's carpentry skills and civic-mindedness leads to an official skate park for the cubs.
  
  Sweet!!
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  Craig Schorling

  Another by the numbers Berenstain Bears book about the importance of wearing safety gear. The community coming together to build a skate park was a nice ending.
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  Stef

  Meh. I won't remember this one.
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  Darlene

  I read this book aloud to my children. They love The Berenstain Bears!
  
  In Safe and Sound!, Brother Bear and Sister Bear learn the importance of skateboard safety. When the school principal announces that skateboarding is prohibited on weekends because there is no supervision, Too-Tall and his gang make their own private skate park. They invite Brother Bear and Sister Bear to join them, but they must obey the only rule: No safety gear allowed!
  
  Even though Brother and Sister give in to peer pressure and remove their safety gear, they soon find out that it isn't such a good idea after Too-Tall gets hurt. They decide they would rather leave than risk injury.
  
  When Papa Bear finds out why the cubs are so unhappy, he volunteers to help the cubs build their own skate park. The entire family helps out, and neighbours also show up to lend a hand. All the cubs in the neighbourhood are eager to try out the new skate park, but they must abide by the rule that safety gear must be worn at all times.
  
  I really liked the sense of community spirit that this book portrayed. Although the cubs do initially give in to peer pressure, they come to realize that they would rather leave and not play at Too-Tall's skate park if it means that they have to forego their safety gear. They realize the importance of playing safe.
  
  This is a cute story, and I love that it teaches some life lessons. The illustrations are bright and colourful.
  
  MY RATING: 4 stars!! It was really good, and I would recommend it!
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  Joann Aubain

  I really like this book! It serves as a great tool for educating children in safety. It is very colorful and demonstrates family and friends working together to create a safe skating environment for children. Today children are easily peer pressured to do whats "cool" and not safe, however this book teaches children to think for themselves and act upon good deeds.
  
  A Learning experience would be to have a large group where I would engage the children in discussing what safety gear is needed and appropriate when operating a bike, skate board, scooter etc. This will help children identify safety gear.
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  Kristin Fletcher-spear

  charlie got this today at chickfila. can i just say how awesome it is that chickfila gives books in their kids' meals!?
  
  anyway, we read this while waiting at the dr's office. Like most Berenstain bears books, this is a lesson disquised as a story. As much as my adult sentiments make me cringe when I'm being taught a lesson forcefully through a story, I do think in picture books there is a value to these types of books. This one teaches safety first and foremost in a practical and fun manner.
  
  Charlie immediately said to read it again, so it gets bonus points for that!
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  jacky

  Natalie loved this book. I think it is because she loves the Berenstain Bears and she knows what skateboards are, not sure how much of the actual story she got. She did say "No, no, no, wear helmets and pads" and "no skateboarding on the weekends." Whenever we read it though.
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  Rosa Cline

  Another wonderful Bernstein Bear book... the cubs learn that Mama bear was right when she pressed them to wear safety gear to play on their skateboards. After seeing one of their friends get hurt pretty badly. A nice (but not scary) way of helping teach our children the importance of safety.
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  Kristy

  Cute stuff. And when I was a kid, I so said the exact same thing about my helmet as Sister did, "It's hot, and it's heavy!!" Mhmmm.
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  Jaime

  My kids love all the berenstain bear books! Always great lessons & values taught! :)
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  Christina

  The Berenstain cubs love to skateboard. Mama Bear says it's better to be safe than sorry and wear pads and helmets. The cubs are not so sure, but learn that sometimes it is better to be safe.
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  Brenna

  A fun book