Look & Learn: Bear Friends - Learn to Read

A great interactive adventure in leaning, the Award Winning Look and Learn series of interactive and educational children’s DVDs teaches kids the essential skills of early learning. In this installment entitled, Bear Friends: Learn to Read, Kool Kat, the feline storyteller, is back with more read-a-long adventures of the lovable Barefoot Bear. This DVD encourages word recognition through games to stimulate a child’s interest while leading them along the road to reading and teaching valuable lessons of friendship, teamwork, hard work, and self-esteem.

 "Delightful" - Video Ratings Guide for Libraries

In Barefoot Bear and the Ice Cream Factory, the brave Barefoot Bear helps a fireman douse a fire, then saves his friend Natalie’s cat, Mittens, and gets a sweet reward for his day’s work. In the 2nd story, Barefoot Bear Plays Ball, Barefoot’s daydream puts him up to bat in the big ball game. But win or lose, Barefoot learns the meaning of true friendship, and in doing so continues to teach your child to read.
 

"Very colorful and well suited to the target age"

- School Library Journal

To reinforce word recognition, the words of the story appear at the bottom of the screen and change color as Kool Kat reads at a easy read-a-long pace. 
 
But that’s not all as this interactive and educational DVD also includes a special Birthday program for children entitled Happy Birdy: A Birthday Video Songbook. Featuring original songs and full-sized live puppets, this special Bonus film creates a magical world of singing and excitement, and is sure to put the extra fun into any birthday celebration.
 
The LOOK AND LEARN SERIES also includes:

Alphabet Soup (Learn the Letters), Soup Stories (How Letters Become Words), Hello Numbers (Learn to Count), It’s a Plus (Learn to Add), and Bear Dreams (Learn to Read). 
 
Recommended for Kids Ages 3-7