The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners by Stan & Jan Berenstain

I don't know if we had this Berenstain Bears book in my house when I was a child, but we did have several Berenstain Bears books. This is one that we own, and it comes up every now and then as a bedtime story selection.

I know that I loved these books when I was a kid. I find that funny now because the books are all about teaching a lesson, and I would have thought I would have seen through this when I was a kid. My girls certainly don't seem to mind that the book is trying to teach a lesson. Not that they listen to the lesson, and not that we ever try to implement Mama Bear's plan to remedy whatever the problem seems to be. In this version the problem is manners and Mama Bear comes up with a chart with a bunch of punishments in the form of household chores if the family members forget their manners.

I don't know that I am a huge fan of the books, but I liked them when I was a kid, and the girls still like them today.

Format: paper
Read/don't read: read

You can find this book at Amazon.com here: The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners