Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear? / Bill Martin, Eric Carle

"Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?" is a simple and colourful picture book that would be ideal for story time. The story asks an animal what it hears and it replies with the name of yet another animal. This goes on until the zookeeper hears children making the sounds of the animals in the zoo.

The text in this book is simple and repetitive and would fit story time perfectly, allowing children to make their favourite animal sounds on the last page with the rest of the children. The images are large (filling the whole page), colourful and set on a clear background. I can imagine children would ask to have this book read time after time.