Editor's note: This rhyming treat describes Jesse Bear's activities from morning to bedtime.

Jesse Bear, what will you wear?

What will you wear in the morning?

My shirt of red

Pulled over my head

Over my head in the morning.

I'll wear my pants

My pants that dance

My pants that dance in the morning.

I'll wear a rose

Between my toes

A rose in my toes in the morning.

I'll wear the sun

On my legs that run

Sun on the run in the morning.

I'll wear the sand

On my arm and hand

Sand on my hand in the morning.

Jesse Bear, what will you wear

What will you wear at noon?

I'll wear my chair.

You'll wear your chair?

I'll wear my chair

'Cause I'm stuck there

Stuck in my chair at noon.

I'll wear carrots and peas

And a little more please

Celery crunch

And sprouts in a bunch

An apple to bite

And a moustache of white

Juice from a pear

And rice in my hair

That's what I'll wear at noon.

Jesse Bear, what will you wear

What will you wear at night?

Not my shirt

It's covered with dirt

Not my pants

That sat in the ants

Ants in my pants tonight.

Jesse Bare, what will you wear

What will you wear at night?

Water to float

My bubbles and boat

I'll wear in the tub tonight.

My pj's with feet

And face on the seat

My blanket that's blue

And plays peek-a-boo

Bear hugs from you

And three kisses too

That's what I'll wear tonight.

Jesse Bear, what will you wear

What will you wear at night?

Sleep in my eyes

And stars in the skies

Moon on my bed

And dreams in my head

That's what I'll wear tonight.

Excerpted from the book JESSE BEAR, WHAT WILL YOU WEAR?, text by Nancy White Carlstrom, and illustrated by Bruce Degen. Text copyright (c) 1986, by Nancy White Carlstrom; illustrations copyright (c) 1986, by Bruce Degen. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc., Children's Publishing Division. All rights reserved.

Pub Date: 03/07/99