I read the classic children's picture book entitled Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin Jr. This book is extremely simply written, so children of all reading levels should be able to enjoy the book. It is also a great book to be read to small children when they are first attempting to learn their colors and animals. Each page spread consists of a different animal in a brilliantly colored variation. Some of the animals are realistically colored (like a white dog, green frog, and gold fish), but a few are unrealistic (a blue horse and a purple cat).

The book begins by questioning a brown bear on what he sees, and he answers that he sees a red bird, which in turn sees a yellow duck, etc. The order of appearance of the vibrantly colored animals are: brown bear, red bird, yellow duck, blue horse, green frog, purple cat, white dog, black sheep, gold fish, a teacher, and finally, students. The last page is a beautiful illustration of several children in a classroom of varying races.

The best part of this book is definitely the distinct illustrations. The illustrator for this book was Eric Carle. They are slightly impressionistic, but the audience makes no mistake as to the type of animal in the picture.

For an interesting listen, I was able to find Bill Martin, Jr. reading the book on YouTube. The link to this video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHCYgO9zh8.

This book is great, and I plan on having it on hand as soon as I have children.