The Berenstain Bears: That Stump Must Go! / Stan & Jan Berenstain

That Stump Must Go is a cute story about Papa Bears struggle with a little stump he trips over in his yard. With his son looking on, Papa Bear attempts to dislodge the stump and discovers that it has a very large root system. Papa Bear’s struggle with the root reaches epic proportions as it eventually affects the entire neighbourhood.

That Stump Must Go is a nice book. The narrative is easy and lyrical and the images are colourful and comical. This book is written as a simple poem so it rhymes and has a simple sentence structure. That Stump Must Go, is a level 2 reader, being longer level one books, but I would say the sentence structure was not more complicated than the previous level one book I read. Longer stories can introduce more vocabulary and variety into a beginning readers understanding and I think this book is interesting and challenging enough to stimulate improvements.