The Imaginative Adventure series

The Imaginative 'Bear Adventure' Short-Read Series

Ever wondered what happens within the eyes of our beloved teds? Enter the world of bears imagination, in the Bearlagos, where fellow bears cohabit peacefully together, but all is not as it seems!
Welcome to Bearventures, a ‘short-read’ adventure book series where you can follow Eski, Oinky and co as they are about embark on an imaginative journey where they unravel more than they ‘beargained’ for’, and face many hurdles, lessons, and challenges awaiting them on their ‘eye-wakening’ adventure.

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Welcome to the Bearcademy

The Bearcademy is where it all started for Eski, Oinky and co, and for the readers of the Bearventures adventure book series the Bearcademy is where your imaginative journey starts too.

Read Bearventures Adventure Book Series

The Bearcademy uniquely combines with, and enhances, the Bearventures story helping you spark your imagination as you read episodes, imagine what happens next in between each episode, or look around the Bearcademy for bear backstories, place backstories, and merchandise.

Create Your Own Bear World Adventure Story

Fuel your own imagination adventure here at the bears’ favourite academy, The Bearcademy, where you can develop your own fiction story writing and creativity skills with the FREE Bear World Creation Pack, and soon, our next Creative Story Writing Course.

Interact With Fun 'Activity Zones'

Look out for ‘activity zone’ marks within the Bearventures episodes and special episode interactions, and also give some a go on The Bearcademy too. Each bear has distinct skills and personality traits, and activity zones are based on their unique traits, such as these:

Welcome to the Bearcademy

The Bearcademy is where it all started for Eski, Oinky and co, and for the readers of the Bearventures adventure book series, the Bearcademy is also where your imaginative journey starts too.

Read The Bearventures Adventure Series

The Bearcademy uniquely combines with, and enhances, the Bearventures story helping you spark your imagination as you read along with Bearventures episodes, ‘make your own adventure’ as you imagine what happens next in between each episode, or look around the Bearcademy site to find bear backstories, place backstories, and Bearventures merchandise.

Get Creative With Fiction Story Writing

Fuel your own imagination adventure here at the bears’ favourite academy, The Bearcademy, where you can develop your own fiction story writing and creativity skills with the FREE Bear World Creation Pack, and soon, the Creative Story Writing Course.

Activity Zones

Look out for ‘activity zone’ marks within the Bearventures episodes and special episode interactions, and also give some a go on The Bearcademy too. Each bear has distinct skills and personality traits, and activity zones are based on their traits. 
Popcorn Experiments
Join Oinky and come up with many different popcorn spells, so when eating a popcorn something unique happens briefly.
Pensa Inventsa
Join Pensa in the invention lab. The Bearlagos is full of Pensa’s inventions everywhere. Can you help create even better ones?
Craft A Joe King
Joe King. The King of jokes, or so he seems to think. Surely you can come up with some better’good-bad’ jokes than Joe King?!
Bubs Blendwords
Bubs talks a lot, and fast! So much so that she has come up with many new blended words. What new words can you come up with?!
Popcorn Experiments
Join Oinky and come up with many different popcorn spells, so when eating a popcorn something unique happens briefly.
Pensa Inventsa
Join Pensa in the invention lab. The Bearlagos is full of Pensa’s inventions everywhere. Can you help create even better ones?
Craft A Joe King
Joe King. The King of jokes, or so he seems to think. Surely you can come up with some better’good-bad’ jokes than Joe King?!
Bubs Blendwords
Bubs talks a lot, and fast! So much so that she has come up with many new blended words. What new words can you come up with?!
"If our imagination is left untouched, we live life somewhat unbrushed, adventure left unexplored, and 'what could've been' ignored."
R.S.Wills - Bearventures Author

The Bearventures Backstory

It All Started With 3 Black Dots

Bearventures came about, like most stories do, in a non-linear way – via a playful discussion from its two writers, who shared a small bear mascot. Meeso, as she was called, looked like a marshmallow, with only 3 black dots distinguishing her from one. She was so small she could easily get lost, and one day, she did. 

“If only we could see through Meeso’s eyes so we could see where she is”, we thought, and this imaginative idea then took on a life and adventure of its own, leading to the creation of Bearventures!

The Bearventures Story's Development

Whilst the story itself was still a blank canvas at first, what followed was an exploration of imagination that started from 3 simple black dots to represent a missing Meeso, and this one simple visual sparked a whole journey and story of what it could be like to be able to see through bear’s eyes (and sense through their nose) in their own bear world.

Senses became a central theme, and as one idea fed to the next, characters evolved, places emerged, as did interesting ideas and backstories behind each place, and even groovy basslines – all adding more depth (and that extra content can be found here at The Bearcademy).

Eventually, a storyline developed. The premise – a core group of bear characters head out on a detective mission in The Bearlagos, led from their own learning headquarters, The Bearcademy, to find their friend Meeso. Whilst the story starts with season one within the bear world of The Bearlagos, the story is still developing further, so watch this space!

The Aim Of The Story In Helping Readers

The focus of the story became on making a journey that could also be imaginative and interactive for the readers to find a connection with.

Each episode is crafted in short-story, bite-size parts, with simple maps and minimal graphics, so it has room to diverge and grow as episodes evolve, but also to allow readers to feed their own imagination into ‘what happens next?!’ in between each episode, with this fill-in-the-blanks idea helping to spark their own idea of what The Bearlagos world could look and feel like if they were in the eyes of the bear characters themselves (possibly even sparking their own bear worlds!).

Another aim was to illustrate how anyone can use writing to escape life by putting pen to paper and just let thoughts flow. Regardless of your writing ability and age, the creative and therapeutic output, can help make your day better, more interesting, and keep your mind sharp, which is where the next upcoming adventure fiction writing course can also help (which opens periodically).

Whilst the story itself was still a blank canvas at first, what followed was an exploration of imagination that started from 3 simple black dots to represent a missing Meeso, and this one simple visual sparked a whole journey and story of what it could be like to be able to see through bear’s eyes (and sense through their nose) in their own bear world.

Senses became a central theme, and as one idea fed to the next, characters evolved, places emerged, as did interesting ideas and backstories behind each place, and even groovy basslines – all adding more depth (and that extra content can be found here at The Bearcademy).

Eventually, a storyline developed. The premise – a core group of bear characters head out on a detective mission in The Bearlagos, led from their own learning headquarters, The Bearcademy, to find their friend Meeso. Whilst the story starts with season one within the bear world of The Bearlagos, the story is still developing further, so watch this space!

The focus of the story became on making a journey that could also be imaginative and interactive for the readers to find a connection with.

Each episode is crafted in short-story, bite-size parts, with simple maps and minimal graphics, so it has room to diverge and grow as episodes evolve, but also to allow readers to feed their own imagination into ‘what happens next?!’ in between each episode, with this fill-in-the-blanks idea helping to spark their own idea of what The Bearlagos world could look and feel like if they were in the eyes of the bear characters themselves (possibly even sparking their own bear worlds!).

Another aim was to illustrate how anyone can use writing to escape life by putting pen to paper and just let thoughts flow. Regardless of your writing ability and age, the creative and therapeutic output, can help make your day better, more interesting, and keep your mind sharp, which is where the next upcoming adventure fiction writing course can also help (which opens periodically).

What Our Readers Say

Find out what more of our readers thought of the Bearventures journeys in our reviews section.

My daughter and I both loved the first episodes. We felt like we were in the bear world ourselves getting to know the place whilst being imaginative together.

Chloe Simons

Bearventures Reader

The course is great. I’m bringing out ideas to my job that I never thought I had. I never thought a book about teddy bears would help my daily life so much.

Jamie Castle

Creativity Course Student

My daughter and I both loved the first episodes. We felt like we were in the bear world ourselves getting to know the place whilst being imaginative together.
Chloe Simons
Bearventures Reader
The course is great. I’m bringing out ideas to my job that I never thought I had. I never thought a book about teddy bears would help my daily life so much.
Jamie Castle
Creativity Course Student

The Real Bearventures

The Next Series Is Coming: A Real Awakening And Bearwildered
Here’s a little teaser video for you!