A Bear for Felicia

A Bear for Felicia Synopsis

I am brown with a nubby coat red button eyes and a black nose and this is my true story. My name is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge III. This name was given me by my clever friend Felicia who is also small and brown with a fringe a tendency to lose crayons and a playground of crazy games in her head. Felicia got me from her mother Stella who got me from her mother Lavinia so I am actually very old. But Felicia never minded that. Living with Felicia and her toys Tassikia Magintripp Scopittle the electric blue bear Amaranita Sarsaparilla Gloriosus the doll and Thunderbox Permusin Peterkar the wind-up mouse was going just honey-smooth for me. Then things started to go wrong at home. Very wrong. And then horror of horrors Felicia's father Elroy wanted to sell me off to a strange foreign long-legged woman called Urbanie Jenovefa Balaclava because he found out that I am worth a lot of money. So much money that you would need more than a thousand fingers to count it Would you like to be pulled away from your friends and be sold off or sent to a musty-fusty museum however old you are and however much you cost? There was nothing I could do. There was nothing anybody could do. Nobody could save me -- nobody But Somebody Did. Who was it? What did they do? Why did they do it? And how how HOW? Read my story that Pinto Bear wrote down Book Reviews It's quirky cute and immensely charming. Rachna Shetty in The Sunday Mid-day A great read. Amrita Bose in Time Out Mumbai Pinto's narrative is through the eyes of the bear as he moves from one generation to the next changing name and gender too. To Felicia's grandmother Lavinia he is Fatty while Felicia's mother calls the bear Betty. A teddy bear is a girl's best friend. As Pinto puts himself in the bear's shoes what comes out is sheer magic. M Venkatesh in mint the kids will love it.

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