Pauline Cockrill

One of my favorite stocking gifts ever!

The Teddy Bear Encyclopedia is loaded with tons of great information that any bear collector would love. I was a serious antique bear collector even having one of my bears in an international calendar. This book is large and filled with great pics of the very best bears. I would certainly recommend as a nice addition to any bear lovers library.

A cute, tiny coffee-table book. The bears are mostly celebrities in their own right (seldom owned by celebrities and just a few designed after celebrities) and their histories are interesting. The page design is modelled after children's nonfiction books (e.g. DK) with captions connected to parts of the illustration by long lines, but the write-up at the bottom is more informational.