Sleepy Bear Misses His Friends

Hi Friends,

I am looking for the recipe for brownies. There are so many cookbooks! I don't remember which one we used. Now what am I going to do?

I sure miss my friends. Maybe I will take a nap then I will decide.

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

ps - Natalie, my friends visited me earlier this month in October.

Hi Boys and Girls,

I'm still missing my friends, Bear and Scaredy Pup. They are my friends in San Diego, California. Do you know where that is? Well, they visited me for one whole entire week!!

One of the things we did was bake brownies. They were yummy. Maybe I should make some today. I will go look for the recipe.

Wish me luck.

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear Misses His Friends

Hi Boys and Girls,

I'm feeling lonely today. I really miss my friends from San Diego. We had a lot of fun when they were visiting me. We baked cookies and climbed trees and everything! I think I'm going to cry.

Bye for now,

Sleepy Bear

Hi Fellow Book Club Members!

I hear you will all be getting books for our book club. I am sooo sooo excited. Are you telling all your friends, too?

I hope you had a good day at school. Did you learn a lot?

Today I checked on my flower bulbs. There is a teeny tiny sprout growing. I have my paws crossed that they grow really big.

I'm hungry. I need to go eat a snack. What should I have? Maybe some nuts and fruit?

I'll write again soon.

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear Is Checking In

Hi Boys and Girls,

Thank you for your comments. I had a fabulous day! I got to read and sleep and watch my bulbs grow. I also sat in the sunshine. It was so beautiful.

I really appreciate your encouragement for my garden. Imer, I have planted bulbs for flowers. They are supposed to have 3 little twigs growing out of the middle of the flower. The twigs I will use when I cook. I sure hope they grow like they are supposed to.

Yes, Alondra, this is my house. Well, really it is the porch in the backyard. Next time I will show you pictures of my herbs I grew during the summer.

I am glad most of you will join my book club. Giselle and Natalie, tell your school librarian I said "thank you" for getting extra copies of The Tiger Rising. I think we will have a lot of fun.

It is waaaay past my sleepy time so I must go now.

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear Tries to Grow Plants

Hi Boys and Girls,

A few weeks ago my friends from San Diego came to visit me. We planted some bulbs to grow flowers. Do you know what bulbs are? If you don't, that's OK. I can tell you. They are like really big seeds that you plant in the dirt. Well, we planted them but I'm a little worried that we did something wrong because they are not growing yet. I even used my brightest flashlight to help me find the flowers. I'll keep checking. And, I'll keep my paws crossed and hope they grow.

I like to work in the garden. How about you? Do you like to plant seeds in the dirt and watch them grow?

I'll write to you again soon. Wish me luck with my bulbs!

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear's Book Club -

Hi Boys and Girls,

Thank you sooo much for your blog comments. I really like getting messages from you. I will try to answer everyone's questions.

Nope, no girlfriend for me. I'm waaaaay too young for that. Maybe when I'm 50 years old. Of course, I would love to be friends with each of you. You all sound like very nice kids and you like to read! Zeena, thank you for your encouragement about me starting a book club. I am very excited about it, too. I got the idea from grown ups I know who are in book clubs. It looks like fun so I thought I would try it out.

Trying to decide on a book to read for the book club has been really, really, really, hard for me. There are sooo many great books to read, and not enough time. But, I need to start somewhere. How about we start with a short book for our first one? Would you like that? I think I would like to read The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. Can you each get a copy of the book so we can talk about it on my blog? I think that would be really cool and lots of fun. I can't wait to get started! Let me know.

Well, I need to go now. I'm feeling a little sleepy. Write back soon.

Your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear's Book Club - I Can't Decide!

Hi boys and girls,

Thanks a bunch for your comments. I really like your suggestions for my book club. You know, I have never had a book club before. It's totally new for me. I still can't decide on which book to choose. So far kids have suggested Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Bud, Not Buddy, and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I have already read the one about Edward Tulane. A lot of my friends are reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I have not read it yet. And Bud, Not Buddy is supposed to be really good. Somebody said it won an award, even! I was also thinking of reading The Tiger Rising. It is by the same author who wrote the Edward Tulane book.

I hope more kids write back with more suggestions. I wan to decide this week. Tell you friends to write back with suggestions.

Time for me to go back to my library. Oh, I will take a picture of my library at home so you can see where I spend a lot of my time, when I'm not writing in my blog.

Bye for now, your friend,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear's Book Club

Hi Boys and Girls!

Well, I have been giving a lot of thought about which book to choose for our first book club together. I have decided that I think it would be fun to read books that have won the Newberry Award. Do you know what that is? Well, if you don't, you're in luck because I will tell you.

"The John Newberry Award The Newberry Medal was designed in 1921. It is an award that is given every year for the most distinguished American Children's book published the year before. The American Library Association gave the responsibility for choosing the winner to the Children's Librarians Section. The Newberry Award became the first children's book award in the world."

I found this information at this website: http://library.thinkquest.org/J0113025/Newberry.html

I will look at the list of books that have won this award and then I will make suggestions. If you have a title you want to suggest, please be sure to write to me.

Happy reading,

Sleepy Bear

Sleepy Bear's Book Club

Hi Boys and Girls!

Summertime is over now and it's time for me to snuggle up indoors and cuddle up with some of my favorite friends - BOOKS! I loooove to read. And, I especially like to share what I read with my other friends - YOU! Sooo, I'm going to select a few books to read and then I will ask you for your suggestions on which one to read first. We can share our reading with each other. Just like a real grown-up book club. What do you think? If you have suggestions for books for our club, be sure to let me know.

OK, I'm off to my library. Check back soon for my list of titles to choose from.

Cheers,

Sleepy Bear