Think back for a moment to stories your parents use to read you as a child. Many of these stories taught you a lesson; one that would in turn make you a better person by helping you understand the world. Three Bears in a Boat is a modern story that does just that. Written by David Soman in 2014, the story takes readers on an adventure with three little bears who happen to accidentally break their mothers beautiful blue seashell. The bears go on an adventure to find a replacement for the shell and in turn learn the importance of taking responsibility for ones actions as they experience much turmoil in regards to placing blame on one another.
This story would be a perfect read aloud to do with a lower grade class in elementary school. The pictures in this text are phenomenal and truly engages young readers by catching their eye. Most importantly, a lesson is learned through the story and it would serve as a great oppurtunity for students to learn new vocabulary such as the world "moral". Not only was this text an easy read, but the author wrote with a very advanced sentence structure. One of my favorite lines from the story was when the bears were learning that they were all responsible for their mothers broken seashell and the text read, "They didn't care whose fault it was anymore, they were all in the same boat". This clever line made me laugh as a I read it and it serves a learning oppurtunity for children to understand and be exposed to the definition of an idiom. Although this story appears as a basic children's book about three bears, it is much more extensive than that and can be integrated into many aspects of the curriculum as readers are learning a larger lesson about life.
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