Episode 323: Read My Book

Bear in the Big Blue House
Premiere	November 13, 1999
Written by	Andy Yerkes
Director	Richard A. Fernandes
Theme	Books

Bear is holding his weekly book club. He's excited that the mail has come because he ordered a new book and sure enough, there's a package waiting for him. However, when he opens the package, he finds that the book is called 1001 Ways to Make Slop. This definitely isn't the book he ordered. A quick phone call to Jeremiah Tortoise reveals the mixup --- Bear must have received Doc Hogg's cookbook by mistake, while Doc Hogg got the book intended for Bear. He says that he'll get the problem taken care of as fast as he can. This leaves Bear with a bit of a dilemma, as he still needs a book to read for his club, but it could take a while for Jeremiah to bring the right book. Bear decides to search the Big Blue House for another book to read. As he goes about his search, he finds that everybody in the Big Blue House has ideas on books that he could read, but he finally receives his book (The Big Blue Book of Stories and Rhymes).

Songs

• Just Reading a Book

Gallery

Notes

• Bear references bear versions of The Brothers Karamazov and Jane Eyre, as well as Buck Rogers (Buck Antler: Deer in Space).
• One of the books on Bear's shelf is the real-world book Red Carpet at the White House: Four Years as Chief of Protocol in the Eisenhower Administration by Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.
• As with "Boys Will Be Boys," Earl plays the dragon in the book Mousey the Great.

Video releases

• Storytelling with Bear (2005)

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