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Everyone in Miss Thompson's fourth grade class loves The Bears' House- Fran Ellen Smith most of all. When Fran Ellen goes into The Bears' House, she can forget about how awful things are at home. At the end of the term Miss Thompson is giving the house away to someone in the class. Fran Ellen knows it won't be her? How is she going to get along without a place to hide? "Superb characterizations and uncommonly skilled writing draw the reader completely into the realities and fantasies of Fran Ellen's world and make this funny, touching story essential reading." ~Library Journal
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Marilyn Sachs worked as a Children's librarian for the Brooklyn Public Library and The San Francisco Public Library. She has written over forty award winning books. was nominated for the Nation Book Award, won The Austrian Children's Book Award, and was picked as a Best Book of the Year by the N.Y. Times and the School Library Journal.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Every child has had problems that they think they cannot handle. In this book, we live the struggle of a young girl just trying to make it in her world. She doesn't want to see her family split up, but in order to keep it together, she has to dodge reality and teachers alike. To escape from her problems, she creates a family for herself in the dolls that her teacher has brought in with her doll house. By creating this "family" her life becomes bearable for the time she is "with" them. A good book about the pain of living in a family that is not exactly like everybody else's family, and coping with reality.
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I first fell in love with "The Bear's House" as a shy, unpopular bookworm of a ten year old, who found a kindred spirit in Fran Ellen, the trying, picked on, "welfare kid" protagonist who escapes into a dollhouse fantasy world as she struggles to deal with poverty, class bullies and a mentally-ill mother. I stayed in love with the Bear's House as a twenty-seven year old confident, outspoken, social worker, who sees too many Fran Ellens in her day to day work. The Bear's House is a must read for children and adults alike- it's prose is blunt but eloquent, and it's message both tragic and hopeful. It paints a perfect picture of a child often forgotten in children's literature- worn out, tired, but without a completely happy ending. A read that not only delights children, but enlightens adults. Highly recommended for classroom read alouds and discussions.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
compassion and understranding
17 Jan 2002
Format:School & Library Binding
Dear Readers, I am 37 years old and havent read this book since 1974 but I remember it as one of the books that helped form my character. I had nothing in common with Fran as a child. My childhood was easy. Fran had to deal with issues that many adults can not handle and it was through her eyes that I saw a different world. Sad and depressing? Well, I can only say that this book wasn't just fluff and silliness.( not that there is anything wrong with fluff and silliness sometimes) This story taught me something about compassion for others and understanding. I remember seeing my less fortunate classmates in a different light. The bears' house that Fran looked at but didnt play with touched me deeply and I could understand her wanting to go to the Bears' house as an escape from reality. I remember father bear telling her to persevere. I remember looking that word up in the dictionary and feeling empowered. So many times growing up and even now as an adult that advice proved to be solid. I read so many great books as a child. This one was very different from all the rest and I have verbally recomended it to people over the years but never without a few tears. Yes I recomend this book to children in the nine and up crowd. Although I was a middle class suburban child I think this book has something for children in other social economic groups as well. This story although sad made you feel hopeful and that all things are possible.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
strange and interesting character
3 Feb 2001
Format:School & Library Binding
Fran Ellen is a likable character despite her problems. And the strange way of acting at school. I really wanted Fran Ellen to get that prize and I was so glad the teacher was nice after all. Those mean girls were the worst! This writer can really make the readers feel what it is like to be someone no one likes at school like Fran Ellen. Yet I admired Fran Ellen a lot. She was good to the baby and I liked the way she played with the bear's house.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Classic for Children and Adults Alike
5 Nov 1997
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I first fell in love with "The Bear's House" as a shy, unpopular bookworm of a ten year old, who found a kindred spirit in Fran Ellen, the trying, picked on, "welfare kid" protagonist who escapes into a dollhouse fantasy world as she struggles to deal with poverty, class bullies and a mentally-ill mother. I stayed in love with the Bear's House as a twenty-seven year old confident, outspoken, social worker, who sees too many Fran Ellens in her day to day work. The Bear's House is a must read for children and adults alike- it's prose is blunt but eloquent, and it's message both tragic and hopeful. It paints a perfect picture of a child often forgotten in children's literature- worn out, tired, but without a completely happy ending. A read that not only delights children, but enlightens adults. Highly recommended for classroom read alouds and discussions.
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