Bear Hugs

Advantages: Can be a great source of comfort....
Disadvantages: Mohair teds can be very expensive

...It was an ordinary day, I was laying on the sofa trying to pretend that the M.E, wasn’t raging a war when the telephone rang. My friend Joanne screamed down the line at me, 'Louise, I'm in love!!'. I scratched my head a little, Jo had been married to Nick for quite a few years and although I know she loved him dearly, it was unusual for her to declare undying love for him on the phone to me, more often than not, we'd have a good half hour of moaning about how our respective hubbies left the toilet seat up, left sweaty socks draped across the bedroom floor and spent an amazing amount of time propping up the bar of the nearest pub! Jo went on to explain that she had discovered a magazine, and after just a flick through the pages had fallen totally and utterly in love with a whole range of teddy bears. I smirked a lot, thought...

Squiggles 16.07.2001 (23.10.2001) · Read review
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The BEAR necessity of CHOCOLATE.

Advantages: It's Cuddly and Chocolate.
Disadvantages: NONE its CHOCOLATE!!!

...my eye and what this review is about was TA DAH... A chocolate scented teddy bear.... This gorgeous dark brown squidgy teddy is soft and cuddly. He is 24cm tall (around 9 1/2" )and smells of CHOCOLATE! Yes, I couldn't believe it either but he really smells absolutely scrumptious. He has a ribbon round his neck in brown chiffon, his paws and feet are dark brown felt and embroidered on his left foot is a steaming cup of hot chocolate (I just can't stop sniffing this bear!) He smells just like the best chocolate...not sickly, but sweet, and not too overpowering. He has black button eyes held very firmly in place and his nose is the same colour as his fur, which is quite long, not shaven, like some teddies. It feels a bit like chenille. His ears are set to the side of his head, not right on top like some bears I have seen, and he feels not...

Mayclair 26.10.2005 · Read review
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regimental, microwavable, personalised bears

Advantages: well I just love him
Disadvantages: i have had no problems

...Well if you're a fan of teddy bears then you can never seem to get enough. I have one particular little bear that lives on my bed. I call him Little John, mainly because he was a gift from the love of my life. He is the little guy in the photo with me. John sent me him for my birthday last year. He was halfway through a 2 year posting in Belize. He is such an adorable little bear who wears a uniform so its great for any of you squaddies out there to send to your loved one. The uniforms they wear are made from good quality fabrics and they have many different regiments available, and do have a regimental beret and cap badge made from felt. And you can add your rank stripes. The bear himself is a quality little guy too, he has moveable limbs so can be postioned to sit on a shelf if needs be. With delightfully soft fur. They...

stezatois1 25.07.2007 (04.09.2007) · Read review
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Bears are better than men because...

Advantages: Harmless hobbey
Disadvantages: Can be expensive

...Well, what more can I say. My teddy bear is always there when I need him. Or perhaps I should elaborate a little bit more. You see I do not have just one or two bears. I am afraid to admit, I am a 28 year old Arctophile. Would you like me to explain myself? Arctophilia, you see, is the art of caring for, making and/or collecting teddy bears. Not just any old bear, mind you. Usually we collect and make "collectors bears". It is an ever growing obsession (some might say), that is taking over the world, slowly but surely. Collectors bears are the type of bears that one might see on the high shelves of gift shops, with labels on them that say "not to be used as a toy", or "not for children under 14". Reason being that most collectors bears are not made to the same trading standards as toys. They may have eyes that are made...

fidgetbum 16.09.2001 · Read review
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My Teddy, My Best Friend

Advantages: Comfy, Secure,Adorable
Disadvantages: lol

...The Best Soft Toys ever!! From when I was a little kid to the day I have a little kid these soft toys have always been my product of choice!! When I was small I always used to have this small little brown teddy and it cost practically nothing, I named it Eddie and had a special relation with it, later my granddad got me a £2000 teddy from Hemly?s which was huge and so overwhelming that its difficult to describe. Ive always shared special bonds with these unresponsive yet so powerful toys and wish I had some power to just get them to life. My kids now love teddy bears as much or maybe as much as I do and I?ve filled their rooms with bears, I would either recommend Toys-r-us or Hemly?s to purchase this product. Well yes, Hemley?s is a touch expensive but the variety and robustness are proportional, so worry not. Just hugging a teddy can...

jimmysinghuk 05.05.2004 · Read review
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I wish a teddy bear would land in my playpen!!

Advantages: Children love the idea of a 'real life' teddy bear
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...Yet another fantastic book by the award winning writer and illustrator of children's picture books, it's certainly no surprise that over 4 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and that they have been translated in to more than 20 languages! ********************************************************************** The story ********************************************************************** The story is told through the eyes of a young boy. One day, with a whooshing sound then a plop, a bounce and a kind of squeak a teddy bear landed in the boy's sister's playpen!! At first he thinks it's just a toy teddy bear until it grabs Sophie's drink and biscuit.............how amazing would that be for an adult, never mind a child!! Anyway when the bear climbs out of the playpen the little boy hides him amongst his...

neenn 29.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Bear - Mick Inkpen

Do you know what an arctophile is?

Advantages: somethimg to love
Disadvantages: ?/

...An arctophile is a person who collects teddy’s A teddy bear I do not know of anyone who at sometime in his or her life has not owned and loved one. Teddy bears the teddy bear is so called because Theodore Roosevelt (nickname teddy) the 26th president of America was taken on a hunt in1902 and his hosts had caught a bear cub tied it to a tree as an easy target for him. Theodore refused to shoot it and walked away ordering the bear to be released. This event was made popular by a political cartoonist who drew the bear cute and with big endearing eyes. The Teddy bear remained Roosevelt mascot for his political career. In Brooklyn Mr Mitchcom and his wife created a toy teddy bear after they had seen a report of teddy Roosevelt and the bear. They opened a toy manufacturing business the ideal novelty and toy company...

mumsymary 19.10.2003 · Read review
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Stuffed Softie

Advantages: soft and cuddly
Disadvantages: none

...Hands up! How many of you played with teddy bears as children? Ah, nearly all hands are up. Now ´fess up, how many of you still have their teddies, either sitting on the sofa, hidden somewhere in the closet or as a part of a teddy collection? Thought so, still quite a lot of hands up. (Not mine, though, my teddy got lost when moving house yonks ago. Did I cry? You bet!). Now, no matter what your teddies look like, which size or colour they have, how much they cost, I can tell you for sure that they´re all (il)legitimate offspring of the first teddy ´born´ in Germany in 1902. HOW IT ALL BEGAN In 1847 Margarete Steiff was born in the German town Giengen in the South of Germany, about 100 km southeast of Stuttgart (and about 60 km away from the town where I live), she was taken ill with polio at the age of 1½ and spent the rest...

MALU 09.03.2005 (19.04.2005) · Read review
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I just want to pick you up and take you home.

Advantages: Each teddy bear has its own individual personality
Disadvantages: Some of the older teddies don't meet todays safety standards

...If you are a teddy bear collector like me then your hobby may be referred to as an ?arctophily?. The word arctophily is derived from the Greek words ?arctos,? which means bear and ?philos,? which means love. WHY ARE THESE BEARS CALLED TEDDY BEARS? It was in November 1902 that Theodore Roosevelt (The American President) or Teddy Roosevelt as he was known to his family, took a 4 day break from politics to attend a bear hunt in Mississippi. The President was unlucky, and his only chance of a kill was a bear cornered and tied to a tree. He refused to shoot it. This incident was illustrated by a political cartoonist, Clifford K. Berryman, and through Berryman the little bear he drew came to symbolize the President. Within a year the little cartoon bear was transformed into a toy ? now known as the teddy bear (named after the President...

saraha007 19.02.2005 · Read review
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Soft, soothing security

Advantages: Soft, cuddly, security for a child
Disadvantages: May not be washable, some cheaper ones may have loose parts

...I had several teddy bears as a child. My favourite (who went by the original name of 'Little Pink Teddy') was threadbare all over by the time I got married and finally tucked him away in a box out of my bed. I had several other teddies too, not so beloved, but still important to me over the years. So when I had children of my own, I naturally assumed they too would want teddy bears, and was delighted when my sister bought each of them, at birth, a rather nice honey-coloured jointed bear, about 20cm high. But of course tiny babies don't take much notice of their surroundings, and at a few months old are more interested in brightly coloured rattles than muted, soft toys. With my first son, I kept the teddy - and others that he'd been given - lined up at the end of his cot, assuming that he would want to cuddle them. But he didn...

Kukana 13.10.2003 · Read review
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