TWO GREEDY BEARS (review)

by Amanda Layoia y Sandra López

“Two greedy bears” is a sweet and funny story that will entertain children and will also teach them a valuable lesson for life. Ginsburg’s main goal is always to bring delight. She uses a wide variety of folk- motifs, including animals, heroes, fools and deceptions.
The two little cubs begin a journey to see the world. As they are thirsty they come to a brook to drink some water. As they are hungry they see a very big round cheese by the roadside and they want to divide it into equal parts.
The illustrations are lively and keep the reader eager to turn the lovely pages from the first one up to the last. 

“They argue and they growl and they begin to fight, till a fox come by”

This quotation expresses the way in which the writer shows that the two bears are so greedy to get the cheese that each of them is left with a little part of it. The fox appears in a friendly way and she seems to help them. In fact, she will take advantage of this situation since she takes almost the whole cheese.
This is a wonderful story book. It deals with real emotions that little children have such as: ambitions, deceptions, fear and sadness. It allows children to think that having those feelings is not as good as they think. The style in which the story is written is clear and attractive. It is a Must!

A LITTLE RED ANT, A BIG SURPRISE

It was a Sunday morning and the little red ant was making some reparations in her ant hill. The rain made it fall in and she wanted to give a surprise to her mother before she arrived home.

As her enthusiasm for finishing her ant hill was huge, she did not realize her mother had arrived. She shouted at her daughter: ‘what are you doing? You have made an enormous hole!’ What’s wrong with that? Said little red ant. ‘It makes room for new people’. This is my big surprise for you mum’.