The Berenstain Bears: Keep the Faith By Mike Berenstain
Brother and Sister Bear’s friend Ferdy Factual loves science. Brother and Sister like science too. They like digging for fossils, examining the moon through their telescope, and peering at tiny things under a microscope. But Ferdy tells Brother and Sister that he doesn’t believe God created the world. In fact, he doesn’t believe in God at all. This is a new idea for Brother and Sister. Together with Mama and Papa, they visit Preacher Brown to find out what it means to have faith and learn a lesson from Daniel who had faith in a den of lions.
The Berenstain Bears is a really familiar series of books many have grown up with. Although Jan and Stan Berenstain have passed on, their son Mike Berentstain has kept the Bear family going. The Berenstain bears books have always related relevant messages to children in a way they can understand. The Living Lights series of Berenstain Bears books has the same aim but with a Christian twist.
The premise of this book is great, and does a wonderful job at explaining the concept of ‘Faith’. I love that it tackles a topic that can be hard for even adults to understand and works it out in a way that is very accessible to young children.
The back cover of the book includes discussion prompts that parents can use with their children to help further the conversation. The Berenstain Bears: Keep the Faith is geared toward children ages 4-8.
About the Author:
Mike Berenstain grew up watching his parents, Stan and Jan, working together to write and draw these lovable bears. Eventually he started drawing and writing about them too.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
My son used to have the Berenstain bears book collection, but that was almost 15 years ago. I might even still have a few books in a box somewhere. Apparently I’ve kept a lot more of his stuff than I had thought. Baby girl has been loving all his old toys/books etc….
I also miss seeing the Berenstain bears on t.v. Can’t remember which network carried it, but we watched it every morning. Glad to see they are still around.
very good books
I almost forgot about the Berenstain bears. It’s been a very long time! But thank you, I will have to start collecting some for the granddaughter arriving in 7 days!
I haven’t seen or opened one of these books since my girls were very little, used to like reading them, so I guess I will have to start with my granddaughter
I remember the Berenstain Bears! Sounds like a cute story.
We are big fans of Berenstain Bears at our house. My kids really enjoy all of the BB books. This one sounds like a good one.
Classic books and what a history with both parents and son writing them.
I love this series and it’s nice to see it is still around and putting out quality books with great messages.
Love the series and watch the cartoons with the grandkids
In these books there is always a moral to the story
THE BERENSTAIN BEARS,i read so many of these books when the kids were small always a funny line in those books,my favorite ws when he young learning the young one how to ride the bike,cracked me up everytime