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Although Barney the teddy bear goes everywhere with his young owner, her mother says he'll have to stay home when she goes to school. But the spunky little girl has other plans. "Engaging....A real charmer."--School Library Journal.
Author Notes
Muriel Dorothy Butler was born in Grey Lynn, New Zealand on April 24, 1925. She received a diploma in education from the University of Auckland for her study of her severely handicapped granddaughter Cushla. This research was later adapted for publication as Cushla and Her Books. She was a children's book author and bookseller. She founded the Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop in Auckland.
She wrote children's books, non-fiction books, and two autobiographies. Her works include Come Back Ginger, My Brown Bear Barney, Seadog, What a Birthday!, Babies Need Books: Sharing the Joy of Books with Children from Birth to Six, Five to Eight: Vital Years for Reading, There Was a Time, and All This and a Bookshop Too. She received several awards during her lifetime including the Children's Book Circle Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1980 and the Margaret Mahy Award in 1992. In 1993, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature. She died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 90.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
An artless story that seems to come straight from the mind of a young child. An engaging little girl explains how her bear Barney accompanies her wherever she goes. Review, p. 609. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Wherever the small narrator goes, she takes Barney plus an assortment of appropriate other people and things: her parents, little brother, things to eat, and sunglasses to the beach; ""my bike, our old dog Charlie, two apples from our tree, my boots"" when she plays with her friend; and so on through a half dozen activities, concluding with a projection for next year: ""My mother says that bears don't go to school. We'll see about that!"" The simple, nicely cadenced text by the well-known New Zealand author of Babies Need Books gives the illustrator a perfect opportunity to portray the important places and things in a little girl's life--what she wears, the items named (shown on a white ground for easy identification by the youngest ""readers""), and more complex scenes that incorporate many more identifiable details--and always Barney himself, joining in as a good friend should. Fuller's realistic illustrations are as crisp and clean as a new day. Just right for lap-sitters or the toddler group. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 3-5. As a wide-eyed, straight-haired little girl enumerates all the places she takes her brown bear, Barney, her faithful teddy is spied amid the weeds in the wheelbarrow, sunning at the beach, and--of course--tucked into bed (sporting matching nightcap and pajamas). But when the youngster itemizes the things she'll carry to school, the omnipresent Barney is conspicuously absent. The furry fellow's nose is noticeably out of joint when he hears, "My mother says that bears don't go to school." But a final turn of the page finds a smiling bear peeking out from a new backpack as the child saucily retorts, "We'll see about that!" Fuller's pert pen-and-watercolor illustrations joyfully capture the loyalty and love in this engaging story for children reluctant to face the unknowns of school without a reassuring companion. --Ellen Mandel
