Timothy, the Bear with Blue Eyes

This book can be read, with a little help, by children in the first grade and read alone by children in the second grade. The themes of this book are self-esteem and self-acceptance. This is a story about being “different” and wanting to be like everyone else. The little bear comes to like himself as he is—with his “difference.”

Barbara Kane, Ed.D, is Professor Emerita of Educational Psychology and Professor Emerita of School Psychology at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.