We're Going on a Bear Hunt

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For a quarter of a century, readers have been swishy-swashying and splash-sploshing through this award-winning favourite. Michael Rosen’s timeless classic, lovingly illustrated by Helen Oxenbury is, in fact, nearing its thirtieth anniversary having first appeared in print in 1989 since when it has become an essential feature on any child’s first bookcase. a b "Interview with Helen Oxenbury for We're Going on a Bear Hunt". Channel 4. 16 November 2016 . Retrieved 14 January 2017. For some other brilliant picture books featuring bears, picture book legend Jill Murphy’s last picture book , Just One Of Those Daysfeatures the Bear family navigating a less than perfect day after not sleeping very well the night before: a really comforting, relatable read. Sian Wheatcroft’s This Bear, That Bearalso follows a singsong rhythm in a similar way to Bear Hunt, and depicts a brilliant variety of bears. Bear Moves(the sequel to I Am Bear) by Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Aykuz is also a jolly picture book encouraging lots of movement, just like We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. For fun with rhymes... Socially distanced neighbourhood bear hunts are taking off around the world". ABC News. 25 March 2020 . Retrieved 31 January 2021. The story was adapted from an American folk song; Rosen, who heard the song, incorporated it in his poetry shows and subsequently wrote the book based upon it. [2] Since publication, the book has never been out of print and each year has been in the 5,000 best selling books. [3] The publisher has stated that the book has attained worldwide sales of more than 9 million copies. [4] Awards [ edit ]

As you are reading the book with your child, encourage them to find ways to make the sound effects as they come up in the story e.g. “splashy river”– encourage your child to splash water in a basin, “howling snowstorm”– encourage your child to blow over the top of an empty bottom. Make a list of things that you might need if you were going on a similar adventure with your family.

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Bear Hunt, beautifully illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is the British children's book author Rosen's most popular book, this Vietnamese edition one of the (more than, now?) fifteen dual language ones. Whenever the text says “We can’t go over it”, etc. ask instead, “Can we go over it?” and shake your head while everyone says “no!”, etc. This involves the group and pulls them into the drama. Michael Rosen skilfully repeats some phrases and the use of onomatopoeia as the family experience each surrounding (‘splash splosh’, ‘squelch squerch’). This not only makes it appealing for young listeners, but interactive too, as it encourages them to join in. Look at the pop-up version of the story. Research different pop-up techniques and make your own pop-up book. Could you retell another famous book in a pop-up book? Stanley is the eldest child, Katie is the second oldest, Rosie is the middle child, Max is the fourth child, and the baby sister (unnamed in both the book and TV adaptation) is the youngest.

There are plenty of children's books about self destructive impulses. In The Cat in the Hat, the children are seduced into destroying their entire house, which they know full well will result in mother's unbridled scorn. Franklin the Turtle is always doing stupid shit and then whining about it when he gets caught. I don't have a big problem with those books. They make sense to me because they follow three core principles: it's ok to depict kids doing dumb shit, because their mistakes are generally inadvertent. The mistakes characters make should teach children about human folly and the lessons we can glean from the err of our ways. Finally, rarely, if ever, are the parents depicted as condoning the child's self-destruction.

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We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is a popular nursery rhyme and educational picture book for kids composed and performed by English children’s author Michael Rosen. Keeler, Sean (29 March 2020). "Coronavirus teddy bear hunts make social distancing fun — yes, fun — for Front Range families". Denver Post . Retrieved 29 March 2020.

Bear hunts" get kids outdoors while still distancing". Fox Carolina. 28 March 2020 . Retrieved 29 March 2020. Leonard, Robert (29 March 2020). "The Coronavirus Is Upending Life in Rural America, Too". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 March 2020. Past Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winners". The Horn Book Magazine. 30 May 2011 . Retrieved 2 January 2017. Then there's the artwork. The artwork is impressionistic, evocative of my youth, particularly the memories I have of using the excrement in my diapers to paint on my bedroom walls. Much like the drawings in this book, I couldn't distinguish between the characters in my own imagery either. Only two things could be said of it with absolution. It stunk, and you can't bleach the images away once they've been burned into your memory.

Make a list of the different types of weather that the family encounter. Find out about each type of weather? What does it feel like? How does it affect us? I followed up the reading of this book with the class the following week when they were asked to act out in small groups what they could remember from the story. The fact that I had introduced actions to represent what the family in the story saw on their journey meant the children were able to confidently recall a lot of the story and really enjoyed acting it out.

Play the ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ game. Can you design your own game based on this, or another, book and write some instructions showing others how to play it?Along with our wonderful activities to support your teaching of this book, we have a whole host of other collections to help you teach other children’s classics. Find examples of onomatopoeia in the story (e.g. swishy, splash, squelch). Make a poster which teaches other people what onomatopoeia means. In the television adaptation, though not in the book, the mother, father, and grandmother of the family make an appearance. Also, the four older children (unnamed in the book) are identified as Stanley, Katie, Rosie, and Max. The baby sister remains nameless. The dog (also anonymous in the book) is called Rufus. Helen Oxenbury was born in Ipswich and attended the Ipswich School of Art before moving to London to study at the Central School of Art and Design.Her career has spanned many fields, including design work in theatre, film and television. She started illustrating children’s books in 1964 and has published books across age groups, from classic board books for babies to collections of nursery rhymes for all ages.