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The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner
3.0

~ Catherine Rayner is the study of an author project I am doing so excuse the sudden influx of her books ~

I took every single Catherine Rayner book that my uni library had had the time out to browse and cross analyse... but I happened to stumble across this one whilst on placement in school!

A slightly more complex story than some of her books, this one includes a group of named characters (only found in a few of her books), yet focused on the one titular character (a constant across her books I have read so far).

This book as you may assume is about sharing, and it does a good simple job of teaching children the importance of basic morals such as patience, differences and friendship.

I enjoyed it for a relaxed reading session, but can also see plenty of opportunities to use in a structured classroom setting too.

Side note: I am very confused by the amount of books recently that have a main character called Norris or Norman!