Grizzwold audiobook

Grizzwold is the biggest bear around and no one bothers him. That doesn’t help him much when men come and cut down his forest home. Poor Grizzwold searches for a new home in all kinds of exciting places, like suburbia, the circus, the desert but he never seems to fit in. The illustrations are very charming and full of character.

Synopsis : Grizzwold the lovable bear is having a tough time finding somewhere to live. He's too big for most places, and too clumsy for others. He's not even any good as a live bearskin rug! Will Grizzwold ever find a home that's just right? Review : One of my childhood favorites. While it's initial premise is a bit on the depressing side, Grizzwold continually perseveres. Yes, his happy forest home is being destroyed by logging but the loggers are nice, apologize and smile throughout. So somehow that makes it "ok"--and we begin to follow Grizzwold through different scenarios looking for a place where he can live and fit in. He tries the dessert, urban housing, a telephone pole all to no avail. His adventures lead to a costume party which is a nice respite until it is discovered that he isn't wearing a costume and gets kicked out. Grizzwold tries the zoo, the circus and finally ends up face to face with hunters! In this tense moment, you wonder if this is it for our friendly homeless friend. Enter the national park ranger and a safe haven for Grizzwold after all. Readers can breathe a sigh of relief that atleast one wild bear made it through...whew! Critical Reviews :Kyle and Henry from Kidview World reviewed this book and said, "I recommend this book because I liked how the ranger saved Grizzwold and kept him safe in the forest." While Henry felt, "I do not recommend this book because there are mean people who cut down trees." I agree on both counts.

Syd Hoff's Grizzwold is almost exactly like Syd Hoff's Oliver, about an elephant trying to find a place in this world. Only the species has changed to infuriate the innocent. This time it's a grizzly bear named, naturally, Grizzwold. Grizz is left out of his own forest when loggers tear down his trees, so he humphs along looking for a new home elsewhere. He can't find one in the circus, or the nearest cave, or amongst society with its little jazz dance parties. Sure it's a carbon copy of Oliver and maybe a few others but guys, I just wanna honor a legend in kids lit who gave us Danny the Dinosaur. And sometimes, just sometimes, we need a repeat of the same old same old tried and true lessons of a few hundred other books, just in case we didn't catch it the first time.Four starsGrizz is the word!!!

An adorable tale about a bear displaced by logging who searches high and low for a new home and ends up in a national park!

A classic book about a bear trying to find a place in the world when his home forest is destroyed by loggers.

Bear meets home. Bear loses home. Bear gets new home.

Hoff, S. (1984). Grizzwold. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. This is a good book of a loveable bear that has a hard time finding a place to live, after his forest starts to disappear when the trees get chopped down. The bear searches everywhere for a forest and finds different homes that are not for him. The bear seems to have outrageous and humorous adventures throughout. What a catchy way to fictionalize this humorous bear with yet a realistic reality of our vanishing forests and animals of today.

Genre: modern fantasy Grade: PreK- 1 This is a good book for students to read on their own! I would probably wait until the end of kindergarten to have kids read it on their own. It has a lot of sight words that students would already know. And the pictures are very good so when the student doesn’t recognize the word, they can sound it out and use the pictures as an aid. I could really see myself using this book. It also talks a little on the environment.

My favorite book as a youngin'. I didn't want to give it back to the library and cried when I had to. My mom gave me my own copy when I graduated from college.

I like it because it is easy to read.