The Forgetful Bears Help Santa

by Larry Weinberg, Jason Wolff (Illustrator)

The Forgetful Bears are back in another (mis)adventure. Children and adults will delight in this memorable story of a fuzzy-headed bear family that thinks Santa is a burglar! Perfect for fans of James Marshall’s The Stupids and Dav Pilkey’s The Dumb Bunnies .

Genres: Christmas, Picture Books, Humor, Holiday

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a slightly surreal and disjointed holiday story, but I was surprised by the low rating until I saw that the "standard" edition has a different illustrator and the pictures look pretty bad as well. I liked the details in the Bruce Degen version -- my favorite like touch is the note on the washing machine, "Not a television". I also liked that the kids are excited by their mixed up presents and prefer them to the traditional ones they were meant to have. And nice that the burly dad has no issue with his football player son enjoying a dollhouse! Overall cute, although probably not a Christmas classic in the making. I see it is a series so I'll check out some earlier ones.

[Audra · Rating 1 out of 5]

I rarely give books one star, but this one was particularly awful. Just because the book is about forgetful bears, doesn't mean the author should forget the storyline over and over. It was hard to follow, scatterbug, confusing and didn't hold my kids' attention for a second. I only finished the book out of sheer determination. Not a fan.

[Sherry Scheline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book out loud and the kids loved it. I didn’t care for it, but the kids (1st/ 2nd graders) loved it. I did like that the forgetful bears messed the presents up and that the boy got the doll house and the girl got the football. I thought they would switch them back, but the storyline went ahead and had the boy love the dollhouse and the girl love the football. I appreciated this awareness to defy the gender stereo-types.

It is an ok book, but not unforgettable.

[Brandon Dyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this children's book to one of my kids and I thought it needed to be more written at a lower grade level. The first pages get the reader confused because I didn't not know the Bears were called the Forgetfuls.

[Christine Barth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had never heard of these bears...they are worse than Amelia Bedelia. Some funny parts, very strange mostly

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

AR 2.8 -- 0.5