Papa Bear fails in the snow.
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Another inane older Berenstain Bear book where Papa tries to teach Small Bear things and just fails miserably at everything. They're trying to do winter things, because Small Bear got a sled, skis, and skates for Christmas from Santa. So Papa sleds off a cliff, falls through the ice while skating on Small Bear's skates, and then falls down the hill instead of skiing and rolls downhill as a snowball and crashes into the house. These are kind of non-realistic things happening to him, except for falling through the ice. These aren't problems that anybody with half a brain in their head would run into.
The best part: Papa does a figure eight, and then Small Bear says, "Look, Pa! I'm skating!/I'm pretty keen./Look Pa! I'm doing/a Figure Sixteen!"