Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear

Jesse's parents spend the day telling Jesse Bear he'd better not get wet as he finds water in a variety of forms to tempt him. The overly strict parents keep interjecting the title in word balloons, and an extra, non-rhyming line gets thrown into the text verse regularly. I found it annoying to read......more

This second Jesse Bear book is set in summer, a fact we discover quickly from the illustrations even though it is never explicitly stated. Jesse Bear is up and about in this book, as he tries to help with a variety of water-related tasks. As he tries to wash a glass, feed the fish, water the flowers......more

Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear is an illustrated children's book by Nancy White Carlstrom, that tells the story of an active young Bear named Jesse. Throughout the book, Jesse plays with fish, frogs, puddles and hoses and his parents routinely remind him that he better not get wet. This is another......more

Jesse Bear finds all kinds of ways to get wet, from sprinklers to bird baths. Mama and Papa don't want him to get wet. The cadence of the rhyme is what I like about this book. Not your typical rhyming book.......more