The Berenstain Bears and the Green-Eyed Monster
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Language: English
Pages: 29
ISBN: 0679864342
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Illustrated in full color. Sister can't believe the gift Brother gets for his birthday--it's the biggest, shiniest three-speed bike she's ever seen! She may not be big enough to reach the pedals, but she wants that bike! The evils of jealousy become clear in a nightmare in which a green-eyed monster convinces Sister to prove that she can ride the bike. But look out! Sister--and the bike--are headed for trouble.
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fallen asleep, came running into the cubs' room. "Oh, Mama!" cried Sister. "I just smashed Brother's beautiful birthday bike into a thousand pieces! A thousand pieces!" "Try to calm down, sweetie," said Mama. "Brother's bike is perfectly safe. You were having a dream." "What's going on?" said Brother, rubbing his eyes. "I'll go downstairs and get us all some warm milk," said Papa. "It'll help us get back to sleep." And it did. The next day Sister's best friend, Lizzy, came over to play. She
fallen asleep, came running into the cubs' room. "Oh, Mama!" cried Sister. "I just smashed Brother's beautiful birthday bike into a thousand pieces! A thousand pieces!" "Try to calm down, sweetie," said Mama. "Brother's bike is perfectly safe. You were having a dream." "What's going on?" said Brother, rubbing his eyes. "I'll go downstairs and get us all some warm milk," said Papa. "It'll help us get back to sleep." And it did. The next day Sister's best friend, Lizzy, came over to play. She
"You're welcome and happy birthday!" said the gift givers. Sister's gift was thoughtful. But she was being thoughtful in another way, too. It isn't always easy when your brother gets a lot of presents and you don't. Sister understood that she had gotten presents when it was her birthday and would again. Besides, she wasn't that interested in aluminum bats, warm-up jackets, fielder's gloves, sports videos, or balsa wood, anyway. But all that changed when Mama and Papa Bear gave Brother their
that big, beautiful bike with the hand brake and the super-sport wheels. "Oh, dear," said Mama. "I think you've been taken over by the green-eyed monster." "Green-eyed monster?" said Sister. "What's that?" "Oh," said Mama. "That's just a way folks have of talking about jealousy and envy. You know what it means to be jealous. Envy is when you want something that belongs to somebody else." "But, Mama," said Sister. "It's such a great beautiful bike!" "Please listen to me, Sister," said Mama.
visitor. The visitor looked exactly like Sister, except she was green and had little horns on her head. "I know who you are," Sister said. "You're the green-eyed monster." Sister was having a dream, of course. But she didn't know that. That's the thing about dreams. They're so real. "Come," said the green-eyed monster. "If you want a bike like Brother's, all you have to do is prove you're big enough to ride it." Before she quite knew what was happening, she was up on the bike and the
