We're Going on a Bear Hunt is a British 1989 children's picture book written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

It has won numerous awards and was the subject of a Guinness World Record for "Largest Reading Lesson" with a book-reading attended by 1,500 children, and an additional 30,000 listeners online, in 2014.

This meeting causes panic and the children start running back home, across all the obstacles, chased by the bear.

[8] The publisher, Walker Books, celebrated the work's 25th anniversary in 2014 by breaking a Guinness World Record for the "Largest Reading Lesson", with a book-reading by author Rosen that was attended by 1,500 children, with an additional 30,000 online.

[3] The book has been adapted as a stage play by director Sally Cookson with musical score by Benji Bower and design by Katie Sykes.

[9][10] Time Out magazine, who awarded four stars out of five, whilst describing the performers as "wonderfully entertaining" also said "those in the later primary years might find it a little boring – not an awful lot happens, after all.

It featured the voices of Olivia Colman, Mark Williams, Pam Ferris and Michael Rosen,[12] and added much dialogue and other elements, including a scene of Rosie being friendly with the bear before the others pull her away.

The Daily Telegraph, giving the programme three stars out of five, commented that "The whole thing was skilfully made, but ... did it need to take such a carefree story and cast a pall of gloom?".