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AN EXTRAORDINARY RESPONSE!

I first placed this page on to the website intending merely to promote my specially themed storytelling presentation.

I was therefore surprised at the amount of traffic that the page attracted, clearly demonstrating the world-wide interest that exists in the subject of Teddy Bears.So for the benefit of these additional visitors, I have added the following material.

I shall continue to add items whenever I find something that I think you will enjoy.

Thank you all for your interest and support!

And if YOU are an organiser of a TEDDY BEAR related event, DO READ the above publicity again and CONTACT ME! By Clicking here

I recently received a request for information about a Teddy Bear story that is unfamiliar to me. However perhaps YOU KNOW IT! If so, please send it in and make Judi's day!

This is what Judi wrote:

"Every time I give blood and see the vial filling with blood the phrase "hot red teddy bear blood" comes to mind. When I was a child I seem to remember a story about a teddy bear who fell down or cut a finger or was injured in some way and he bled "hot red teddy bear blood." Does anyone remember that particular phrase and where it came from? I'd love for my memory to be refreshed!"

Thanks in advance!

I have received an email from Warren Etchells, asking for information regarding a Teddy Bear tale that he remembers from the past. It is a story with which I am not familiar but others may be able to help. If YOU have any ideas, then please let me have the details so that I can pass the information on to Warren. Thank you in advance, here is Warren's request:

"When I was a little boy I was watching a children's programme. It was very heart warming about a little teddy bear, visiting a toy shop, with Mummy Bear. I only remember the end, which stuck in my mind, the mummy bear had bought the little bear a toy motor, and it was the image at the end of the little bear coming out of the shop with the toy motor, and was all smiles. I always remembered it but can't remember what the story was called. any ideas?"

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I have also received an email from David Palmer. He is looking for a teddy bear tale. David's email is self-explanatory and if anyone 'out there' knows the story, please contact me so that I can pass it on to David and perhaps include it among the other tales on this page.

Here is David's request:

"I wonder if you could help me source a story about a teddy bear that I heard on Radio 4 a few years ago. Basically it followed the life of a teddy bear at the beginning of the 1900's. It went with its owner to the front lines in the First World War and the story follows its life up to the modern day.

I'm sorry the information is so vague but I can't remember the full details. I do remember however that it was quite a moving tale. Many thanks".

Both David and I will keep our fingers crossed!

TEDDY BEAR JOKES

Here are a few jokes that might amuse you.

What do Winnie the Pooh and Rupert the Bear have in common?
Their middle names.

What’s white, furry and tastes of peppermint?
A polo bear.

Why do bears have fur coats?
They’d feel silly in plastic macs.

How do you start a teddy bear race?
Ready, Teddy, Go!

A teddy bear who worked on a building site arrived for work one morning to discover that his pick was missing. He went to see the foreman, who told him, “It’s because today’s the day the teddy bears have their picks nicked!”

If YOU know any others and would like to share them, e-mail me and I’ll credit the source.

Searching for a Teddy Bear tale!

I recently received the following email. Rosemary is trying to locate a Teddy Bear story. I don't know it but if anyone of YOU out there knows of it, please contact me and I'll pass the information on. Here is Rosemary's query:

I wonder if you can help? I am trying to find the story called 'Teddy Bear waiting for four o'clock tea.'
It is about a bear thrown away on a rubbish tip, who finds himself next to a clock which reads five to four, and the teddy is happy, because he always has tea with his owner at four o'clock, and doesn't know the clock is broken.

Do you know it and the author?I do hope you can help.Many thanks, Rosemary. ....................

Further to the preceding item, which has been on this page for quite a considerable time...I have GOOD NEWS!

Lea Ann Kaplan has located the illusive tale. It appears to be the lyric of a song! Thank you Lea Ann for taking the trouble to post this lovely story, your kindness is very much appreciated. So here it is Rosemary, if you are still searching. It is called:

NEARLY FOUR

A teddy bear sits on a mattress
One glass eye and threadbare paw
Looking at a cuckoo clock
Which shows it's ten to four

Four o'clock is teddy's teatime
Lots of friends and fancy cake
Although it's only pretend eating
Oh how long ten minutes take

Shadows grow on distant hillsides
Orange sun on glassy sea
All in his amber eye reflected
And still ten minutes left 'til tea

The mattress, striped, is old and broken
Rusty springs through stuffing show
The cuckoo clock is also broken
But how's a teddy supposed to know?

Unaware he's been discarded
That this is not the nursery cot
The hills and sea just glass, old papers
On a disused rubbish plot

A telephone that no one answers
Empty tins that once held tea
The clock that still says nearly teatime
Where can all the children be?

For ages now he's lain unwanted
Saluting with his threadbare paw
He'll never know he's been abandoned
'Til the clock reads after four

Don't tell him that the clock is broken
For as long as teddy doesn't know
It'll always soon be teatime
As it was so long ago.

I am sure it will bring a little lump in the throat to many of you - It did me!

It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and can be found with a lot of other fascinating lyrics about animals and insects etc. on the website of Captain Beaky and His Band

Here is yet another request for a 'Lost' Teddy Bear tale!

Michelle writes:

I am looking for a story called "The Purple Bear". I don't know the author, but the story is slightly poetic in form & begins with "I was a play horse you pull with a string on wheels where legs should be." - If you can find it I would like to know. Thanks, Michelle

If anyone out there knows this story, please email me and I will pass it on to Michelle.

(It happened for Rosemary - let's hope we can do it again!)

No Teddy Bears feature would be complete without reference to this ever popular song:

The Teddy Bear's Picnic

Below are the lyrics to a song that was published in 1919! An American magical colleague sent them to me. He writes fascinating stories and routines for magicians. His name is Ed Solomon.

He didn’t send the music but I think it works quite well as a comical poem for children.

He saw this page and thought the item would fit very well alongside the material already here. He is quite right of course. Thanks, Ed.

So here it is, I hope you all enjoy it.

THE BIG BROWN BEAR.

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