Books like The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers
By Stan Berenstain
For families ready to have the stranger-safety talk, this one hands you the words to use. Practical, reassuring, and matter-of-fact — a family sitting down to sort out a real problem together.
A Pilgrim family sails to the New World aboard the crowded Mayflower, where a new baby brother arrives mid-voyage, and once ashore they face hunger, cold, and sickness until Native Americans help them survive to their first harvest.
A young boy asks his grandma where God is in their city, so she teaches him to look for kindness, patience, and love in the people around him.
A granddaughter joins her granny and a growing group of neighbors on a mysterious, important walk through their community — one granny says will shape her into a leader.
A dressmaker's daughter sets out alone through a fierce snowstorm to deliver a duchess's ball gown, battling howling wind and deep drifts to complete her mother's errand.
In a real Harlem neighborhood, a girl named Nevaeh calls an abandoned lot the haunted garden, until a caring man invites the local kids to transform it into a thriving farm.
A girl teased for having big hair and unusual tastes gets the chance to embarrass the boy who bullies her when he's stuck on the playground — and has to decide what kind of person she wants to be.
A little boy with only little things — a little pinwheel, a little tricycle — watches his big brother and sister zoom past on bigger, faster toys, until he plants a tiny seed of his own.
A mysterious storm traps a father and his kids inside their house with no end in sight, and with nothing to do, everyone starts getting on each other's nerves.
A nonfiction dive into fashion history reveals how corsets, combs, hair dye, and hats have actually injured or killed the people who wore or made them.
A boy who loves the playground keeps running into Sammy, a boy who calls himself King and threatens to bury him, cage him with bears, or tie him to the slide — so his dad helps him figure out what to do.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
A bear family decides their old home is too small, so Mama, Papa, and Brother Bear pack up their belongings, say goodbye to friends, and move to a new tree house.
