This book is about a young bear named Brownie that is growing and learning. He has learned do a lot of things like climbing trees and catching fish. But the one thing he hasnt learned to do is growl, and he wants to win the Great Growling Contest. So he practiced with each of his animal friends. Brownie learns to make many sounds, but growling isnt one of them. However, when someone is bullying his friend, he growls the most perfect growl ever heard!

This book is about a young bear named Brownie that is growing and learning. He has learned do a lot of things like climbing trees and catching fish. But the one thing he hasn't learned to do is growl, and he wants to win the "Great Growling Contest." So he practiced with each of his animal friends. Brownie learns to make many sounds, but growling isn't one of them. However, when someone is bullying his friend, he growls the most perfect growl ever heard!

"Like all bears, I was born and lived on the hillside. In the Rocky Mountains, where my home was, there is nothing but hills, or mountains, for miles and miles, so that you can wander on for day after day, always going up one side of a hill and down the other, and up and down again; and at the bottom of almost every valley there is a stream or river, which for most of the year swirls along nosily and full of water." "Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear" is the story of a bear that starts off its life in the serene atmosphere of the wild. But curiosity soon leads him to human settlements and that where his real adventure begins...

Hordes of grotesque and comical little elves swarm on every page, intent on mischief or merry-making. cf. Children's catalog. H.W. Wilson Co.

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children's education and children's illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children's Picture Book Award winner The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?