Customer Reviews
Still Love It To This Day - By: I Have An Opinion - Do You Want To Hear It?, 22 Jul 2008 
I was given this as a gift on my 8th birthday by my best friend at the time. Initiallly, I was disappointed because a friend I didn't like as much had brought me a Paws-For-Thoughts organizer which I thought was much cooler(!) & I thought my best friend should have been the one to get me something so brilliant.
However, I settled down in the big armchair in our dinning room to listen to the cassette recording (read by Sir Ian McKellen, except he wasn't a 'Sir' then & the name meant nothing to me!!). By the end of it I was crying. It's a sad tale but beautifully told & sparked my imagination. I read the book & then listened to the tape again & so on until I knew the story by heart. I always thought the end sentence was odd - "I tried it [a hat] on but it did not fit" but then my greatest novel to date was an 8-paged affair callled 'The Lost Cat'...
I'd love to somehow (though God knows how) put this on the stage or do a screenplay of it for children's television. Children watch so much rubbish today because it's alll that is available & it would be lovely to change that.
I still listen to the tape (I'm 20 years old now!) & I have the book somewhere in the attic. It's simply a great children's story. I even learnt to play the title music on the piano, which is the only thing I was ever dedicated to learning at the time!
AWESOME! - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 17 May 2008 This book is about an inseparable friendship between a beautiful but poor orphan girl callled Roxanne & a bear, named Bruno, which was looked after by her since he was only a poor little orphan cub. All the characters have clear-cut personalities - the grandfather is very crusty & bitter, Tiny is a cheerful & comical character who always brightens up even the dullest of moments & makes everyone smile, the narrator a solitary old man who teaches the children, at the local school, but he wanted to be a shepherd - in a way he was a shepherd but he herded children instead of sheep. This was a very moving story & was written brilliantly by Michael Morpurgo, who is a great writer. This book is good for alll ages & quite a short but also definitely a wonderful read.
The first book I read by Michael Morpurgo - By: Doniaa, 01 Nov 2007 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 & she loves him sooo much. Elvis comes to their village & 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 - By: Ms. Ak Shorer, 10 Oct 2007 
The dancing bear is about a girl callled Roxanne & 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 - By: , 29 Jun 2005 I was given the dancing bear as a child of about 8 for christmas. I read this book & 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 callled Roxanne who lives with her unkind unlce. One day she comes back from her wonderings with a smalll bear cub & perswades the village to let her keep him. As the story progresses it tells you about what they did as smalll children with the bear bruno. Then a film crew come to their high mountain village & shoot a video similar to the pied piper. The whole village is included & so is bruno.It ends with Roxanne leaving to become a singing star & bruno dieing. It is a very sad but moving story, but even now years & years after i last read it & last heard the tape's music i can still remember it as if i can hear it right now. It is a wonderful & touching book that i recomend to anyone who can feel.
