Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5500 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

SHE MAGAZINE
It's rare to find a story that combines so successfully a contemporary plot and modern morality with a feel for legend and fairy tale.

Synopsis
A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village -- safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear!

From the Back Cover
High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child.

Soon they are inseparable, beloved by whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear...

A gentle and deeply moving story, told with great charm by award-winning author Michael Morpurgo.

Customer Reviews

The first book I read by Michael Morpurgo
I think this book is for age 7+ because some words younger people might not understand.
This is a fantastic book so if you are not sure if you want to buy it do because I poromise you, you are not wasting your money!

Roxanne finds a new bear and she loves him sooo much. Elvis comes to their village and asks the bear to dance. The bear would not, unless Roxanne tells him to.
In the end Roxanne leaves for a week or so, the bear sadly dies because he missed Roxanne so much.

Elena-The Dancing Bear
The dancing bear is about a girl called Roxanne and a bear. She finds the bear in the woods. I think that her granddad is mean to her because he will not let Roxanne keep the bear in her home.
By Elena Pitocco

The dancing bear - a story
I was given the dancing bear as a child of about 8 for christmas. I read this book and listened to it every day. The story began telling you about the narrator that never gets named but you expect him to be Michael Mulpurgo. It tells you of an orphan called Roxanne who lives with her unkind unlce. One day she comes back from her wonderings with a small bear cub and perswades the village to let her keep him. As the story progresses it tells you about what they did as small children with the bear bruno. Then a film crew come to their high mountain village and shoot a video similar to the pied piper. The whole village is included and so is bruno.It ends with Roxanne leaving to become a singing star and bruno dieing. It is a very sad but moving story, but even now years and years after i last read it and last heard the tape's music i can still remember it as if i can hear it right now. It is a wonderful and touching book that i recomend to anyone who can feel.