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Before his return, he had used the telegram to propose to and be accepted by Wolcott's sister Caroline Starr Balestier — , called "Carrie", whom he had met a year earlier, and with whom he had apparently been having an intermittent romance. On 18 January , Carrie Balestier aged 29 and Rudyard Kipling aged 26 were married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones.
Henry James gave the bride away. Kipling and his wife settled upon a honeymoon that would take them first to the United States including a stop at the Balestier family estate near Brattleboro, Vermont and then on to Japan. Taking this loss in their stride, they returned to the US, back to Vermont — Carrie by this time was pregnant with their first child —and rented a small cottage on a farm near Brattleboro for ten dollars a month. According to Kipling, "We furnished it with a simplicity that fore-ran the hire-purchase system. We bought, second or third hand, a huge, hot-air stove which we installed in the cellar.
We cut generous holes in our thin floors for its eight-inch [20 cm] tin pipes why we were not burned in our beds each week of the winter I never can understand and we were extraordinarily and self-centredly content. In this house, which they called Bliss Cottage , their first child, Josephine, was born "in three-foot of snow on the night of 29 December Her Mother's birthday being the 31st and mine the 30th of the same month, we congratulated her on her sense of the fitness of things It was also in this cottage that the first dawnings of the Jungle Books came to Kipling: It chanced that I had written a tale about Indian Forestry work which included a boy who had been brought up by wolves.
After blocking out the main idea in my head, the pen took charge, and I watched it begin to write stories about Mowgli and animals, which later grew into the two Jungle Books ". Kipling named the house Naulakha , in honour of Wolcott and of their collaboration, and this time the name was spelled correctly. In the short span of four years, he produced, in addition to the Jungle Books , a collection of short stories The Day's Work , a novel Captains Courageous , and a profusion of poetry, including the volume The Seven Seas. The collection of Barrack-Room Ballads was issued in March , first published individually for the most part in , and containing his poems " Mandalay " and " Gunga Din ".
He especially enjoyed writing the Jungle Books — both masterpieces of imaginative writing — and enjoyed, too, corresponding with the many children who wrote to him about them. The writing life in Naulakha was occasionally interrupted by visitors, including his father , who visited soon after his retirement in , [16] and British writer Arthur Conan Doyle , who brought his golf-clubs, stayed for two days, and gave Kipling an extended golf lesson. From all accounts, Kipling loved the outdoors, [16] not least of whose marvels in Vermont was the turning of the leaves each fall.
He described this moment in a letter: Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the sumacs grow. Three days later, the hill-sides as fast as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold. Then a wet wind blew, and ruined all the uniforms of that gorgeous army; and the oaks , who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed cuirasses and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained but pencil-shadings of bare boughs, and one could see into the most private heart of the woods.
In February , Elsie Kipling was born, the couple's second daughter. By this time, according to several biographers, their marital relationship was no longer light-hearted and spontaneous. The Kiplings loved life in Vermont and might have lived out their lives there, were it not for two incidents—one of global politics, the other of family discord—that hastily ended their time there.
By the early s, the United Kingdom and Venezuela were in a border dispute involving British Guiana. The US had made several offers to arbitrate, but in , the new American Secretary of State Richard Olney upped the ante by arguing for the American "right" to arbitrate on grounds of sovereignty on the continent see the Olney interpretation as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Although the crisis led to greater US-British co-operation, at the time Kipling was bewildered by what he felt was persistent anti-British sentiment in the US, especially in the press.
A family dispute became the final straw. For some time, relations between Carrie and her brother Beatty Balestier had been strained, owing to his drinking and insolvency. In May , an inebriated Beatty encountered Kipling on the street and threatened him with physical harm. In July , a week before the hearing was to resume, the Kiplings packed their belongings, left the United States, and returned to England. By September , the Kiplings were in Torquay , Devon, on the southwestern coast of England, in a hillside home overlooking the English Channel. Although Kipling did not much care for his new house, whose design, he claimed, left its occupants feeling dispirited and gloomy, he managed to remain productive and socially active.
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Kipling was now a famous man, and in the previous two or three years had increasingly been making political pronouncements in his writings. The Kiplings had welcomed their first son, John , in August Kipling had begun work on two poems, " Recessional " and " The White Man's Burden " which were to create controversy when published. Regarded by some as anthems for enlightened and duty-bound empire-building that captured the mood of the Victorian age , the poems equally were regarded by others as propaganda for brazenfaced imperialism and its attendant racial attitudes; still others saw irony in the poems and warnings of the perils of empire.
Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. There was also foreboding in the poems, a sense that all could yet come to naught.
Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet. Lest we forget—lest we forget! In early , the Kiplings travelled to South Africa for their winter holiday, thus beginning an annual tradition which excepting the following year was to last until They always stayed in "The Woolsack", a house on Cecil Rhodes ' estate at Groote Schuur and now a student residence for the University of Cape Town ; it was within walking distance of Rhodes' mansion.
Kipling cultivated their friendship and came to admire the men and their politics. The period — was crucial in the history of South Africa and included the Second Boer War — , the ensuing peace treaty, and the formation of the Union of South Africa. Back in England, Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War and on his next visit to South Africa in early , he became a correspondent for The Friend newspaper in Bloemfontein , which had been commandeered by Lord Roberts for British troops.
Although his journalistic stint was to last only two weeks, it was Kipling's first work on a newspaper staff since he left The Pioneer in Allahabad more than ten years earlier. Gwynne , and others. Bateman's was Kipling's home from until his death in It had no bathroom, no running water upstairs, and no electricity, but Kipling loved it: It is a good and peaceable place. We have loved it ever since our first sight of it. In the non-fiction realm he became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in which were collected as A Fleet in Being.
On a visit to the United States in , Kipling and Josephine developed pneumonia , from which she eventually died. In the wake of his daughter's death, Kipling concentrated on collecting material for what would become Just So Stories for Little Children. That work was published in , the year after Kim was first issued. In his poem The Rowers , Kipling attacked the Kaiser as a threat to Britain and made the first use of the term "Hun" as an anti-German insult, using Wilhelm's own words and the actions of German troops in China to portray Germans as essentially barbarians.
The first decade of the 20th century saw Kipling at the height of his popularity. Kipling wrote a number of speculative fiction short stories, including " The Army of a Dream ", in which he attempted to show a more efficient and responsible army than the hereditary bureaucracy of England at that time, and two science fiction stories, With the Night Mail and As Easy As A.
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Both of those were set in the 21st century in Kipling's Aerial Board of Control universe. They read like modern hard science fiction , [58] and introduced the literary technique known as indirect exposition, which would later become one of Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein 's hallmarks.
In , he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after having been nominated in that year by Charles Oman , professor at the University of Oxford. The Swedish Academy, in awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature this year to Rudyard Kipling, desires to pay a tribute of homage to the literature of England , so rich in manifold glories, and to the greatest genius in the realm of narrative that that country has produced in our times.
Puck of Pook's Hill , and Rewards and Fairies The latter contained the poem " If— ". Such was Kipling's popularity that he was asked by his friend Max Aitken to intervene in the Canadian election on behalf of the Conservatives. On 7 September , the Montreal Daily Star newspaper published a front-page appeal to all Canadians against the reciprocity agreement with the United States by Kipling who wrote: Once that soul is pawned for any consideration, Canada must inevitably conform to the commercial, legal, financial, social, and ethical standards which will be imposed on her by the sheer admitted weight of the United States.
Over the next week, Kipling's appeal was reprinted in every English newspaper in Canada and is credited with helping to turn Canadian public opinion against the Liberal government that signed the reciprocity agreement. Kipling wrote in a letter to a friend that Ireland was not a nation, and that before the English arrived in , the Irish were a gang of cattle thieves living in savagery and killing each other while "writing dreary poems" about it all.
In his viewpoint, it was only British rule that allowed Ireland to advance. Kipling wrote the poem " Ulster " in reflecting his Unionist politics. Kipling often referred to the Irish Unionists as "our party". Asquith that would plunge Ireland into the Dark Ages and allow the Irish Catholic majority to oppress the Protestant minority.
Kipling was a staunch opponent of Bolshevism , a position which he shared with his friend Henry Rider Haggard. The two had bonded upon Kipling's arrival in London in largely on the strength of their shared opinions, and they remained lifelong friends. According to the English magazine Masonic Illustrated, Kipling became a Freemason in about , before the usual minimum age of I was entered [as an Apprentice] by a member from Brahmo Somaj , a Hindu , passed [to the degree of Fellow Craft] by a Mohammedan , and raised [to the degree of Master Mason] by an Englishman.
Our Tyler was an Indian Jew. Kipling so loved his masonic experience that he memorialised its ideals in his famous poem, "The Mother Lodge", [68] and used the fraternity and its symbols as vital plot devices in his novella, The Man Who Would Be King. At the beginning of the First World War , like many other writers, Kipling wrote pamphlets and poems which enthusiastically supported the UK's war aims of restoring Belgium after that kingdom had been occupied by Germany, together with more generalised statements that Britain was standing up for the cause of good.
In September , Kipling was asked by the British government to write propaganda, an offer that he immediately accepted. Kipling was enraged by reports of the Rape of Belgium together with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in , which he saw as a deeply inhumane act, which led him to see the war as a crusade for civilisation against barbarism. Today, there are only two divisions in the world Alongside his passionate antipathy towards Germany , Kipling was privately deeply critical of how the war was fought by the British Army, complaining as early as October that Germany should have been defeated by now, and something must be wrong with the British Army.
As a result, thousands of British soldiers were now paying with their lives for their failure in the fields of France and Belgium. Kipling had scorn for those men who shirked duty in the First World War. This much we can realise, even though we are so close to it, the old safe instinct saves us from triumph and exultation.
But what will be the position in years to come of the young man who has deliberately elected to outcaste himself from this all-embracing brotherhood? What of his family, and, above all, what of his descendants, when the books have been closed and the last balance struck of sacrifice and sorrow in every hamlet, village, parish, suburb, city, shire, district, province, and Dominion throughout the Empire? John had initially wanted to join the Royal Navy, but having had his application turned down after a failed medical examination due to poor eyesight, he opted to apply for military service as an Army officer.
But again, his eyesight was an issue during the medical examination. In fact, he tried twice to enlist but was rejected. His father had been lifelong friends with Lord Roberts , former commander-in-chief of the British Army, and colonel of the Irish Guards, and at Rudyard's request, John was accepted into the Irish Guards.
John Kipling was sent to Loos two days into the battle in a reinforcement contingent. He was last seen stumbling through the mud blindly, with a possible facial injury. A body identified as his was found in , although that identification has been challenged. John's death has been linked to Kipling's poem " My Boy Jack ", notably in the play My Boy Jack and its subsequent television adaptation , along with the documentary Rudyard Kipling: However, the poem was originally published at the head of a story about the Battle of Jutland and appears to refer to a death at sea; the 'Jack' referred to is probably a generic ' Jack Tar '.
However, it is true that Kipling was emotionally devastated by the death of his son. It is said that Kipling helped assuage his grief over his son's death by reading the novels of Jane Austen aloud to his wife and daughter. Some of the poems were set to music by English composer Edward Elgar. Kipling became friends with a French soldier named Maurice Hammoneau whose life had been saved in the First World War when his copy of Kim , which he had in his left breast pocket, stopped a bullet.
Hammoneau presented Kipling with the book with bullet still embedded and his Croix de Guerre as a token of gratitude. They continued to correspond, and when Hammoneau had a son, Kipling insisted on returning the book and medal. The next day, he wrote to the newspaper to disclaim authorship, and a correction appeared. Although The Times employed a private detective to investigate and the detective appears to have suspected Kipling himself of being the author , the identity of the hoaxer was never established. Partly in response to John's death, Kipling joined Sir Fabian Ware 's Imperial War Graves Commission now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , the group responsible for the garden-like British war graves that can be found to this day dotted along the former Western Front and all the other locations around the world where troops of the British Empire lie buried.
His most significant contributions to the project were his selection of the biblical phrase, " Their Name Liveth For Evermore " Ecclesiasticus Additionally, he wrote a two-volume history of the Irish Guards , his son's regiment: Kipling's moving short story, "The Gardener", depicts visits to the war cemeteries, and the poem " The King's Pilgrimage " depicts a journey which King George V made, touring the cemeteries and memorials under construction by the Imperial War Graves Commission.
With the increasing popularity of the automobile, Kipling became a motoring correspondent for the British press, and wrote enthusiastically of his trips around England and abroad, even though he was usually driven by a chauffeur. After the war, Kipling was sceptical about the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations , but he had great hopes that the United States would abandon isolationism and that the post-war world would be dominated by an Anglo-French-American alliance.
Kipling was very hostile towards Communism, writing about the Bolshevik take-over in that one sixth of the world had "passed bodily out of civilization". This short-lived enterprise focused on promoting classic liberal ideals as a response to the rising power of Communist tendencies within Great Britain, or, as Kipling put it, "to combat the advance of Bolshevism". In , Kipling, who had made reference to the work of engineers in some of his poems, such as "The Sons of Martha", "Sappers", and " McAndrew's Hymn ", [93] and in other writings, including short story anthologies such as The Day's Work , [94] was asked by University of Toronto civil engineering professor Herbert E.
Haultain for his assistance in developing a dignified obligation and ceremony for graduating engineering students.
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Kipling was enthusiastic in his response and shortly produced both, formally entitled " The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer ". Today, engineering graduates all across Canada are presented with an iron ring at the ceremony as a reminder of their obligation to society. Kipling, who was a francophile , argued strongly for an Anglo-French alliance to uphold the peace, calling Britain and France in the "twin fortresses of European civilization". He wrote that it was madness for Britain to seek to pressure France to revise Versailles in Germany's favour. In , Kipling was opposed to the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald as "Bolshevism without bullets", but believing that Labour was a Communist front organisation, he took the view that "excited orders and instructions from Moscow" would expose Labour as such an organisation to the British people.
By , he called Mussolini a deranged and dangerous egomaniac and in wrote, "The Hitlerites are out for blood". Despite his anti-communism, the first major translations of Kipling into Russian took place during Lenin's rule in the early s, and during the interwar period, Kipling was very popular with Russian readers. Many of the younger Russian poets and writers such as Konstantin Simonov were influenced by Kipling. Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on their covers associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower, reflecting the influence of Indian culture.
Kipling's use of the swastika was based on the Indian sun symbol conferring good luck and the Sanskrit word meaning "fortunate" or "well-being". I thought it being the Swastika would be appropriate for your Swastika. May it bring you even more good fortune. Kipling kept writing until the early s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. On the night of 12 January he suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine. He underwent surgery but died less than a week later on 18 January , at the age of 70 of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
The pallbearers at the funeral included Kipling's cousin, the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , and the marble casket was covered by a Union Jack. More than 50 unpublished poems by Kipling, discovered by the American scholar Thomas Pinney, were released for the first time in March Various writers, such as Edmund Candler , were strongly influenced by Kipling's writing. Kipling's stories for adults remain in print and have garnered high praise from writers as different as Poul Anderson , Jorge Luis Borges , and Randall Jarrell who wrote that, "After you have read Kipling's fifty or seventy-five best stories you realize that few men have written this many stories of this much merit, and that very few have written more and better stories.
His children's stories remain popular, and his Jungle Books have been made into several movies. The first was made by producer Alexander Korda , and other films have been produced by the Walt Disney Company. A number of his poems were set to music by Percy Grainger. A series of short films based on some of his stories was broadcast by the BBC in Eliot edited A Choice of Kipling's Verse with an introductory essay. An immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is not present: Of Kipling's verse, such as his Barrack-Room Ballads , Eliot writes "of a number of poets who have written great poetry, only And unless I am mistaken, Kipling's position in this class is not only high, but unique.
In response to Eliot, George Orwell wrote a long consideration of Kipling's work for Horizon in , noting that although as a "jingo imperialist" Kipling was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting", his work had many qualities which ensured that while "every enlightened person has despised him One reason for Kipling's power [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view, even though it happened to be a false one.
Although he had no direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists. He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality.
The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do? Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling himself put it, always return. Kipling sold out to the British governing class, not financially but emotionally.
This warped his political judgement, for the British ruling class were not what he imagined, and it led him into abysses of folly and snobbery, but he gained a corresponding advantage from having at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like. He dealt largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks. Even his worst follies seem less shallow and less irritating than the 'enlightened' utterances of the same period, such as Wilde's epigrams or the collection of cracker-mottoes at the end of Man and Superman.
The poet Alison Brackenbury writes that "Kipling is poetry's Dickens, an outsider and journalist with an unrivalled ear for sound and speech. The English folk singer Peter Bellamy was a great lover of Kipling's poetry, much of which he believed to have been influenced by English traditional folk forms. He recorded several albums of Kipling's verse set to traditional airs, or to tunes of his own composition written in traditional style. Kipling is often quoted in discussions of contemporary political and social issues.
Political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg , who attempts to reclaim English nationalism from the right-wing, has reclaimed Kipling for an inclusive sense of Englishness. Throughout their lives, Kipling and his wife Carrie maintained an active interest in Camp Mowglis, which is still in operation and continues the traditions that Kipling inspired.
The campers are referred to as "the Pack," from the youngest "Cubs" to the oldest campers living in "Den. Kipling's links with the Scouting movements were also strong. These connections still exist today, such as the continued popularity of " Kim's Game " in the Scouting movement. The movement is named after Mowgli 's adopted wolf family, and the adult helpers of Wolf Cub Packs adopt names taken from The Jungle Book , especially the adult leader who is called Akela after the leader of the Seeonee wolf pack.
After the death of Kipling's wife in , his house, " Bateman's " in Burwash , East Sussex, South East England, where he had lived from until , was bequeathed to the National Trust and is now a public museum dedicated to the author. Elsie Bambridge , his only child who lived to maturity, died childless in , and also bequeathed her copyrights to the National Trust, which in turn donated them to the University of Sussex to ensure better public access.
Novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis wrote a poem, 'Kipling at Bateman's', after visiting Kipling's Burwash home Amis' father had lived in Burwash briefly in the s as part of a BBC television series on writers and their houses. In modern-day India, whence he drew much of his material, Kipling's reputation remains controversial, especially amongst modern nationalists and some post-colonial critics. Rudyard Kipling was a prominent supporter of Colonel Reginald Dyer , who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in the province of Punjab.
Kipling called Dyer "the man who saved India" and also initiated collections for the latter's homecoming prize. Other contemporary Indian intellectuals such as Ashis Nandy have taken a more nuanced view of his work. Momma bear is wearing a dress and cap at all times, the doctor is the high authority on WHY not to eat ho-hos for lunch Didn't assume too much intelligence on the part of kid readers.
Then again, the original copyright date is And it did, after all, suck me in when I was young. Nov 10, Jen rated it it was ok. Arg with the body shaming in kids' junk food books! The thing with this book is that the back half is actually good; the family goes to the doctor and learns about the various systems in the body like the nervous system, bone structure, digestive tracts, etc. And the recognition that exercise is important and can be a family activity is great. Even the fact that alternative snacks are spelled out so that it's not just "eat better" but " Arg with the body shaming in kids' junk food books!
Even the fact that alternative snacks are spelled out so that it's not just "eat better" but "here's what eating better can look like" and the acknowledgement that the transition is hard the cubs really want their sweet stuff as they're getting used to the new foods are really strong parts of this book.
But the whole of it kicks off with Mama Bear looking at her family and thinking them fat, an observation reinforced by the local doctor at the freaking grocery store. Don't make kids self-conscious in public spaces like that, Berenstains. I loved the Bears when I was a kid, but coming across this one was a sad realization that not all of them hold up to the requirements of my adult self. Use the back half of this book to teach your kids about nutrition, but skip the first half. Jan 10, Charity rated it it was ok Shelves: My three-year-old is currently enamored of The Berenstain Bears.
He wants to check out the whole section every time we're at the library, but I limit him to three because that's about all my husband and I can stand to read to him over and over until next week's library trip. I won't review all of them because they're all very similar. This one, however, gets a review because it's a very good example of what a dolt Papa always seems to be in these books. Mama calls all the shots and Papa just fol My three-year-old is currently enamored of The Berenstain Bears.
Mama calls all the shots and Papa just follows along. It's like he's one of the kidsand often he's even more kid-like than the kids are. Papa's like a precursor to Homer Simpson except that The Simpsons doesn't try to teach life lessons. I just find it irritating. At least this newer series doesn't attempt to rhyme like the ones I read when I was an early reader. I'll keep getting these books out for my son because he loves them, but when he's not looking, I pepper the stack with books I've picked out for him.
View all 6 comments. Aug 19, Sarah Adamson rated it it was ok Shelves: A good idea for a book but now it's dated and includes a lot of conversations that are now viewed as inappropriate. There is so much information - too much almost about body image being important when general health matters much more! Just didn't give me good feelings and led to serious discussions with my daughter about the way her body looks not being anywhere near as important as its health status which includes her mental health and being happy and feeling good and being healthy and able to A good idea for a book but now it's dated and includes a lot of conversations that are now viewed as inappropriate.
Just didn't give me good feelings and led to serious discussions with my daughter about the way her body looks not being anywhere near as important as its health status which includes her mental health and being happy and feeling good and being healthy and able to be active. Oct 25, Liesl rated it liked it Shelves: Although the story means well, it's not nearly as good as I remembered. The plot falls in the unfortunate, lazy "Mama is always right, Papa is a dolt and lumped in with the kids" trap along with too many others from the series.
I don't care for how all junk food is dismissed outright; it is more realistic to introduce enjoying treats both in moderation and on special occasions in addition to primarily eating healthy.
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Jun 29, Tam rated it really liked it. My 8-year-old really liked this book but his school focuses on healthy eating so he's okay with giving up junk food. My favorite part was when Papa Bear wanted to know what he could drink if he couldn't drink his Sweetsie-Cola. Mama Bear replied, "Try this. It emphasized healthy eating and exercise. Dec 07, Miri Mandel rated it really liked it. I think it's a good book and it talks about not eating so much junk and they're growing and it talks about eating healthy and doing exercise.
And it's a good book. Mar 12, Leah rated it liked it Shelves: I just like to wallow in all the pictures of junk food overindulgence. A sad early warning of the demise of Cookie Monster. May 28, Kristine Hansen rated it liked it Shelves: Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't bears be naturally Well, Papa Bear is definitely a little on the paunchy side, and the cubs were definitely not eating well, so a change definitely needed to be made. Might I suggest it start with Mama Bear, who shouldn't have bought all the junk food in the first place? Or allowed them to eat all that trash at the mall or movies?
Yeah, I'm a little critical here but there's a definite fat-shaming moment here that left me somewhat Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't bears be naturally Yeah, I'm a little critical here but there's a definite fat-shaming moment here that left me somewhat triggered. Putting the blame on the cubs for what they eat is entirely unfair.
They're not making good choices, but what choices are you offering? And somehow I don't see how a trip to the doctor to look at pictures of the digestive system will make everyone take up jogging But while the book isn't necessarily realistic, it's needed. Seeing the cubs make good food choices for themselves at the end of the book is heartening, but it doesn't address the sedentary lifestyle that is also a contributing factor as to where they are physically. Overall, I'm not liking this book as much as I first thought when I sat down to write the review. I'd been happy initially to see the Bears talk about junk food.
But I'm not sure any of this goes about talking about it in the right way. And the all or nothing attitude leaves something to be desired. So, no, this isn't the best book out there. But I'm kind of wondering just what other options there are that talk about this same issue. It's important to understand food. But there's more fun ways to discuss it I should think. Aug 21, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: Oh the childhood memories this brings back. Jun 24, Mindy Cho rated it really liked it Shelves: The brother, sister, and father bear all struggle with eating healthy in the house.
Their refrigerator is filled with junk food and the mother bear is the only one who really cares about eating healthy. Mother bear sees that all three bears are gaining weight and are afraid they will eat like this everyday. The three bears don't see and understand the reason of why they need The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food is a story about the Barenstain Bear family and their unhealthy eating habits. The three bears don't see and understand the reason of why they need to eat healthy. Mother bear decides to empty their refrigerator and go to the market with the whole family to buy healthy food.
When they are at the market, the bears sees their family doctor and mother bear decides to take the whole family to the doctor's office. She is hoping the family doctor can influence and teach the bears why they need to take care of their body and why junk food is bad for them.
After the doctor's appointment, the bears are convinced and understand the need to eat healthier and exercise regularly. They decide to run the neighborhood race together as a family and are happy they complete the race together. I think this book is a great discussion starter in talking about the importance of eating healthy and exercising to children. There are many times children may want to eat junk food and not eat regular healthy meals, so this book could be a short, but informative text that explains to them the importance in a easy understandable way.
The author does a great job in including the bears conflicts and hardships to show how difficult it is to resist eating junk food, eating healthy, and exercising on a regular basis. I like how this book was about the bear family, but it relates to humans and especially easy for children to understand the theme of healthy eating. I think this book ends of in a poignant way because it allows the readers to understand the overall theme but leaves it up to them to make a change in their life to become healthier. This book is a great example of how writing can be used to create a story for children to get an important information across to them.
May 11, Slow Man rated it it was amazing Shelves: What a great way to tell the young about eating healthy food and exercise. Jul 02, Kimberly rated it really liked it. From the Inside Flap Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices that Papa and the cubs are getting too chubby. Grizzly's slide show on ho Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices that Papa and the cubs are getting too chubby. From the Trade Paperback edition. Feb 24, Cassidy rated it it was amazing. In this story of a fun family of bears we see a unique and creative approach to teaching health to children.
After the mama bear notices a change in size and personality of both her husband and kids, she decides to take away certain privileges such as sweet snacks, and too much television. The author does a wonderful job showing the change of the bears from the beginning of the book, to the end in not just appearance but personality as well. The illustrations in this book are important because t In this story of a fun family of bears we see a unique and creative approach to teaching health to children.
The illustrations in this book are important because the subject of body health can be sensitive to certain people. The mama bear has kind facial expressions, even when she is upset she does not come across as offensive. The illustrations are also bright in general, which draws attention.
The illustrator also gives the bears a slightly rounder body while they are making unhealthy choices, and a straighter figure after they make the change. This book has the potential to reach out to many kids and show them the negative effects of eating too much junk food and not exercising regularly as well as the positive effects of eating healthy and being active.
After the bears get back to playing and making healthy choices they no longer desire the things they used to think they loved. I also liked how the papa bear was involved and made the same unhealthy choices as the bear. It may be common for a mother and the children to follow certain rules that a father is exempt from, however in this book he is treated equally. I think this book could be used in many ways to promote healthy eating, exercise, family time, or even just to entertain. Jul 15, Tracy Poff rated it did not like it Shelves: The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food is a didactic tale, seeking to teach children to eat healthy food and eschew eating junk food.
Mama Bear observes that her cubs have been eating a lot of junk food and are beginning to get a bit chubby.
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She shuts away the junk food in the freezer, and whisks the family away to see D The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food is a didactic tale, seeking to teach children to eat healthy food and eschew eating junk food. She shuts away the junk food in the freezer, and whisks the family away to see Dr. In the end, although Papa wants to celebrate their finishing a race by eating junk food, the lesson seems to have stuck with the cubs, who insist on carrot sticks, nuts, and raisins.
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The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food
May 03, Anna Marie rated it liked it Shelves: Junk food is unhealthy, it adds on unnecessary weight and can lead to early onset of various diseases. Mother knows she's got to turn her family's bad eating habits around. Apr 30, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book tells about how to eat healthily and what can happen when you eat unhealthily. This book has some great advice. Mar 25, Tamara rated it liked it. In this book, the young bears are caught up in eating too much junk food. The readers will see the parents trying to show the children that eating sweets is not always the best choice of food.
The bears entertain us in another book from their series and help these children learn a valuable lesson about eating healthy. Read together or read alone: Picture Book series Illustrations: The illustrations in this story are very colorful. I think that is what attracts the young readers to the Berenstain bears collection. Each character has a lot of detail and they are easy for young readers to identify with. These books are great for a read aloud or independent reading.
A read aloud would be great for the younger children, while the word choice is not too hard for children who are on this reading level. They are great books to read because they teach each child a valuable lesson that all should learn. Sometimes it's easier for them to relate to characters in a story, which is why they help teach lessons.
Dec 03, Rilee rated it really liked it. In this book, the Berenstain Bears learn about healthy living. At first, they have a steady diet of sweets and unhealthy foods. Even though they are delicious, the bears begin to feel the negative effects of what they are eating. They do not feel well, gain weight, and are tired all of the time.
They go to the doctor and learn that the cure for their symptoms is exercise and healthy eating. The bear family makes the difficult transition to healthy living and they benefit immensely from it. The c In this book, the Berenstain Bears learn about healthy living. The characters in this story are lovable and are relatable to many children. Also, the book is filled with colorful illustrations, which makes it visually appealing and enjoyable to read. The plot contains humor and interesting twists and turns.
The combination of these qualities makes this a great read for children. This is a great book for teaching children about the importance of healthy living. In a classroom, it would be a great addition to a unit on the importance of healthy eating or exercise. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food is a realistic fiction book aimed at children of primary to intermediate ages This story is about a family of bears Mama, Papa, Sister, Brother who are encouraged to change their eating habits to become healthier and lose weight. This book translates a very positive message about the effects of eating healthy.
In the story illustrations of healthy food and not so healthy food are incorporated giving the reader good visual aids. This is an excel The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food is a realistic fiction book aimed at children of primary to intermediate ages