Philippa and Peter Waring

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 adultfood 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 Bears 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...

Treasure Pess, 1984