| Author: Michael Rosen | Publisher: Alladin Paperbacks | Publication Date: Jan 2003 | Number of Pages: 36 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0689853491 | ISBN-13: 9780689853494

Beloved for more than 30 years, this award-winning classic from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury celebrates the joys of an afternoon outdoors with family. We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one. Will you come too? Join a father and his four young children as they cross a field of tall, wavy grass, wade through a deep, cold river, struggle through swampy mud, find their way through a big, dark forest, fight through a whirling snowstorm, and enter finally enter a narrow, gloomy cave. What will they find there? You'll have to read on to find out! For more than thirty years readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favorite. Now fans of this timeless story from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury can celebrate and share with this oversized lap board book edition that has an updated, colorized cover.

Follow the familys excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of the bear. What a surprise awaits in the cave on the other side of the dark forest.

This is a beautiful book with captivating artwork and lots of repetition. I’ve posted my favourite free printables to go with it.

'I was taken into a darkened room to look at the pictures. I couldn't see what they had to do with a bear hunt'

Join in the bear hunt with this fabulous interactive sound book! We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one. Will you come too? For twenty-five years, readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favourite. Follow and join in the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of a bear. What a surprise awaits them in the cave on the other side of the dark forest! Now you can join in the fun with this interactive sound book.

Follow and join in the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of a bear. What a surprise awaits them in the cave on the other side of the dark forest!Suitable for ages: 2+ yearsNumber of pages: 40 pagesBook cover: PaperbackIllustrated by Helen OxenburyWinner of the Smarties Book Prize and highly commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal

The enduring power of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury is testament to the fantastic language and mind-opening illustrations.

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Sound activity for We're Going on a Bear Hunt

"We're Going on a Bear Hunt", by Michael Rosen (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), is the all-time favourite book of many of my students. It's a rollicking, almost hypnotic, tale about a family getting out, exploring the world, and then coming home together. Oh, and it features a bear chase! The book's popularity owes much of its appeal to its poetic language. It showcases English stress patterns, using concrete nouns, simple verbs, interesting adjectives and some enchanting words-sound effects (onomatopoeia). In this no-prep oral language companion to "We're Going on a Bear Hunt", we have adopted the language used in the book to create a verbal reasoning workout that's fun, and flexible. Featuring 12 oral language activities, we've focused most of the tasks at Blank's 2nd Level of questioning, making it suitable for preschoolers and young school-aged children alike. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Included in the pack are: 1. We're going on a .. [different types of family activities]. 2. What can we see? 3. Things we can't do! 4. Early adjectives. What's [adjective]? 5. Onomatopoeia - sound effect play! 6. Activity naming. 7. Vocabulary: What do you need to ... 8. Equipment for activities with specific verbs 9. Divergent thinking: from verbs 10. What is this part for? 11. Where could you find these things? 12. Sequencing events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We hope you find this oral language companion a useful complement to the story, and to your teaching. If you work with young students, we highly recommend getting a copy of the storybook. Pick up a copy, new or second-hand, from a local bookstore, or from an online bookseller. If, for any reason, you can't get hold of the book, you can access an animated retelling of the story, here. Connect with us, read our articles and find more resources at our speech pathology clinic: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/banterspeech/ Website: https://www.banterspeech.com.au/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/banterspeech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BanterSpeech

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For brave hunters and bear-lovers, the classic chant-aloud by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. Follow and join in the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of a bear. What a surprise awaits them in the cave on the other side of the dark forest!; 40 pages; Published: 16/09/1993

Where this initiative began, no one is quite certain, but teddy bears are popping up all around the globe in a bid to fight isolation boredom and spread joy in our communities. Based on the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’, the concept is …

An exciting, hands-on twist on the popular Going on a Bear Hunt book and activity. Kids will love creating, playing with this adventure!

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen (writer) & Helen Oxenbury (illustrator), Walker Books, 1989. Our edition: Walker Books, 1997. Click on the cover to listen to the way we read We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. We're Going on a Bear Hunt is a family adventure of playful bravery, evocative noises and giggly fear. The Story Based on an old campfire song, We're Going on a Bear Hunt tells the story of a family (refreshingly, a father with four kids and a dog) that sets out one morning on an adventure to catch a bear. They are determined ("We're going on a bear hunt"), confident (We're going to catch a big one), optimistic ("What a beautiful day!") and fearless ("We're not scared"). On the way, they encounter all sorts of obstacles they "can't go over and can't go under" but just have to "go through", and, luckily, they all make interesting noises. These obstacles include a field of long wavy grass (swishy swashy), a deep cold river (splash splosh), a field of thick oozy mud (squelch squerch), a big dark forest (stumble trip!), a swirling whirling snowstorm (Hoooo woooo!) and finally a narrow gloomy cave (tiptoe! tiptoe!). Waiting for them in the cave is the last thing they expect to find. An actual bear! They all turn around and run out, having to make their way back through all the obstacles in reverse order, making all those funny noises again, but far more quickly and with the bear running after them, back to their front door and eventually into bed and under the covers with the determination never to go on a bear hunt again. The Illustrations Helen Oxenbury's pencil and watercolour illustrations, alternating colour and black and white double page spreads, bring to life this family's day out, with a perfect rendering of that combination of excitement and contented exhaustion children tend to display on a day out. We're Going on a Bear Hunt has wonderful movement scenes: Splash splosh Oh no! We forgot to close the door! And just as great scenes of the family at rest in between obstacles: We like the faces of them all when they enter into the cave: Tiptoe! Tiptoe! And when they get to the bedroom. Aaaah! Our son loves the scene where they are under the blanket, particuarly the head poking out in the bottom left hand corner and the safe teddy-bear the baby is playing with: And we all like the last scene, of course, with the bear walking back alone, looking more like he's in need of a friend than a bite to eat: Reading it Aloud We're Going on a Bear Hunt is written to be recited or sung out loud. We did not know the song it is based on and I confess we found it hard to find a comfortable rhythm to it at the very start. It somehow seemed to fall flat. However after a few readings, we made it our own and our son has loved it ever since (we bought it when he was around 15 months). It has all the perfect elements to be read aloud to young kids: repetition (both words and rhythm), plenty of interesting sounds, and a sudden change in tempo which breaks the tension and brings on a wonderful comic effect that gets children giggling every time, before it all calms down again right at the end. And on top of all that, the chance -almost the compulsion- for the child to join in, with voice or body or both. We sometimes read it "quietly" and concentrate on the sounds (like in the recording), or read it more actively, acting it out, moving our hands through the grass while we say swishy swashy, pretending to swim through the splash splosh, getting up and walking in the squelch squerchy mud and pretending to stumble and trip through the forest, before shivering through the snowstorm and tiptoeing into the cave and then doing it all in reverse order on the way back! Whether we are reading it quietly or actively, we always move our arms to: We can't go over it. We can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it! A couple of interesting We're Going on a Bear Hunt videos: Check out this lightly animated version of the story: And Michael Rosen himself telling it: (c) of all the illustrations in this post: Helen Oxenbury, 1989.

So you've just discovered the addition of a new nephew, niece, grandchild to the family, and you would love to give a book. But you find yourself standing in Barnes & Noble feeling completely overwhelmed. It's been ages, decades perhaps, since you last visited the childrens' section, and you just don't know where to begin. You can't go wrong with We're Going on a Bear Hunt (c. 1989) retold by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. This is the ultimate read-aloud! And I don't make that statement lightly. Do be forewarned that this particular book will become quite worn with love. And the child you plan to bequeath it to will be able to repeat it scores of years later. A terrific bonus since this same repetition encourages pre-literacy skills. Said child will recall Oxenbury's gorgeous illustrations whenever he hears the word bear due to early childhood imprinting. And if I haven't convinced you, take another look at Oxenbury's illustrations and/or listen to Michael Rosen's brilliantly animated YouTube performance: The kids enjoyed this performance so much that we've played it several times over. Michael Rosen's YouTube performance of We're Going on a Bear Hunt:

"Were Going on a Bear Hunt"! And it’s even more fun to do the actions in the story. This post has movement ideas to do at home and at school.

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Amazon.com: We're Going on a Bear Hunt: Anniversary Edition of a Modern Classic: 9781416987116: Rosen, Michael, Oxenbury, Helen

This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savanna In this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear but for a lion-a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy-swashy long grass, a splishy-splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home. Young readers will enjoy the playful language and beautiful paintings that reset a familiar story in a far-off part of the world.