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Use this alongside our My Favourite Toy Activity Sheet or our other activities and games for your toys topic. The Everywhere Bear belongs to Class One and the children take it in turns to take him home for the weekend. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. He goes home with a different child every weekend and no-one knows what surprises the weekend will bring! Best-selling duo Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb reunite in a lovely story that begins in a Year One classroom before taking us on an exciting, fantastical journey.

The Everywhere Bear is a warm and engaging story from Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb, the creators of The Paper Dolls, which has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide and was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenway Medal. Their imaginations take flight when the poor bear is lost, swept down a drain and into the sea in dramatic scenes before finally, almost miraculously, he’s reunited with Class One. He's washed down a drain and whooshed out to sea, rescued by a fishing boat, loaded onto a lorry, carried off by a seagull . Best-selling Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb create some wonderful adventures for the much-loved class bear in this warm-hearted and dramatic story with a strong classroom background.

Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. The Everywhere Bear has a wonderful time with the children in Class One, but one day he gets more than he bargained for when he falls unnoticed from a backpack and embarks on his own big adventure! Lovereading4kids Here is a partnership that really works and once again has resulted in that treasure - a perfect read aloud, whether to the child at bedtime or to the whole class. On one of these, some children showed me their class mascot – I think it was a furry panda – and told me how he’d once been lost on the way back to school from a child’s house. Then, when I was doing a signing at a book festival, a child from another school brought their class bear along, and when I asked its name I was told it was “The Everywhere Bear”.

The Everywhere Bear by Julia Donaldson is a great story to use during your toys topic in EYFS or KS1.