Noted psychotherapist, educator, and bestselling author Lesley Koplow shares her extensive experience working with young as well as school-aged children to offer teachers a proven way of addressing social and emotional issues in the classroom. In Bears, Bears Everywhere!, Koplow discusses innovative strategies for integrating Teddy Bears into classroom life to help teachers address unresolved emotional issues that hinder children’s socialization and learning processes. She explains how using Teddy Bears can help children connect to their feelings and express them in constructive ways, establishing a safe and supportive learning environment for every student. The book includes lesson plans with developmentally appropriate activities for pre-K through 5th-grade teachers.

A group of children demonstrates what is needed to make a mudpie.

Mom is very busy and hardly notices what her son is saying to her. Just out his window, he sees bears everywhere. There is a debonair bear, a bear with no hair, and a rather rare bear. No one seems to be in despair. Why are all those bears out there?

Rookie Reader, Level B.

This is a warm, rhyming lyrical text about a little girl who loves bears more than anything else in the world.

A little girl wishes for bears and her dream comes true.

A young girl find bears everywhere and counts them, one to ten.