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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2017 | Picture Books
PreS-Gr 2—Middle Bear has a middle-size problem. "He was not big, but he was not small, either." Any middle child will recognize the situation right away. Middle Bear isn't the oldest or the youngest, or the biggest or the smallest. "He was the middle one." Depressed Middle Bear is convinced that there is nothing special about being number two. Isern introduces several synonyms such as "medium," "middling," and "middle-size" to describe Middle Bear's possessions and actions. Everything in his li...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2018
The unnamed bear protagonist is a middle sibling who finds being "middle" (going to bed after his younger brother but before his older ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More