Teddy Bears

by Philippa Waring and Peter Waring

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907812910
• ISBN13: 9780907812913
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Book Sales
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

for arctophiles ( teddy bear lovers)

"A Teddy Bear is the one possession that is never given away or discarded - it only wears out with love." THis book was originally published in 1980 under the title "In Praise of Teddy Bears". But this book is more that a lve letter to teddy bears. It gives all sorts of info about the history of the teddy bear. Sure, you know the basic history of how a man arranged a "canned hunt" for Theodore Rossevelt, in which a bear cub or a restrained full grown bear (depending on what version you believe) was made available for President Roosevelt to shoot. He refused and the "teddy bear" was born. There were even children's books about the "Roosevelt Bears Teddy B and Teddy G". But there's a lot more to teddy bears than that story. THere's the manufacturers, the books. THis book even includes the animated bears such as Yogi Bear and Baloo. One of my favorite parts of the books has information about an organization near and dear to my heart - the "Good Bears of the World" group. This group provides free bears to hospitals, police departments and any other place that the comfort of a teddy is needed - which is almost anywhere in the world. If you love teddies like I love teddies, this is the book for you.

from back cover

To millions of people around the world the Teddy Bear is far more than a cute soft toy. Bears given to people in childhood often stay with them as their confidants in adulthood and their comforters in old age. A Teddy Bear is the one possession that is never given away or discarded-it only wears out with love.This book is dedicated to these amazing bears and to the 'arctophiles' who cherish and collect them. In photographs, pictures, stories, songs and anecdotes it celebrates some of the Good Bears of the World. Famous bears like Paddington, Smokey the Bear and Winnie the Pooh;unassuming, homely bears, big bears, small bears; old and new; every imaginable kind of bear is here, making this the book for Teddy Bear lovers everywhere.