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The Dancing Bear

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For more information about the work of Farms for City Children, please visit www.farmsforcitychildren.org Every girl will devour this incredibly poignant story of a young girl who adopts an abandoned bear cub. I LOVE Michael Morpurgo stories. As a kid, I used to read so many of his books. I took part in a handwriting competition at primary school and ended up winning a signed book by him 🙂

LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. The concept has entered into the lexicon in the form of the common proverb; "The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." There are many classroom exercises you could do with this book. The class could write a story with a different ending if Roxanne stayed with the bear, what would have happened? They could act out the book and play different characters showing the different emotions from each character. They could also write a diary from one of the characters point of view and how they felt about the bear being in their village. It's about an old man who only cares for money ( Roxanne's grandfather) and how he manipulates his grand daughter to use the bear for monetary gain. And the thing is, I loved many of Michael Morpurgo's other books - especially Kaspar Prince of Cats. His writing was simple enough to understand and follow, and the animals in these books were not vilified or used simply for comedic purposes. I liked that about them.

Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Well, being the curious sort that I am and working in the mental health field I had to know exactly what the young lady (and male clients) was talking about and how it could possibly be the source of such a response as heard from this young man.

You can also read about his life in War Child to War Horse,a collaborative biography with Maggie Fergusson. High in the Mountains an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable – happy and safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear …It was an interesting story, but the ending didn't really fit, if you get what I mean? It didn't make sense and it completely contradicted whatever we learnt about the characters in the first half of the book. If Roxanne was shown to be so loving and caring for the bear, why'd did she never see the letter? I get that people change with fame and success, but the author wrote Roxanne to be a sincere person, and it didn't make sense that she completely forgot about the bear. Findeizen, Nikolai (2008). History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1: From Antiquity to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century. Indiana University Press. p.201. ISBN 978-0-253-02637-8. The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo, tells the delicate story of an orphan called Roxanne who adopts an abandoned bear cub. The story is told from the perspective of Roxanne’s school teacher. The book is set in an isolated, mountainous village. The whole village allows Roxanne to adopt the bear, as they hope it will bring a financial profit to the village in the future. This hope is fulfilled when a TV crew come to the village, looking for a dancing bear to be in their new music video. But the video ends up featuring the bear and Roxanne. She is offered a chance of fame and luxury and leaves her sheltered life behind and her precious bear. The bear dies from heart break the next morning and the book ends.

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