When Bear is chosen from a toy shop by a smiling little girl with bouncy red hair he immediately knows what it is to be loved.
Harriet names him Blue and knows just how to look after him. She strokes his fur, and never, ever leaves him behind. Until, one day she does - by mistake! Poor Bear! He is alone on the beach and he didn’t even get to say goodbye.
Homeless and loveless, Bear has moments of company but many, many more moments of just being alone. Time passes until, years later, Bear turns up at a summer fete and another little girl with bouncy red hair falls in love with him and gets her mum to buy him…
A neatly circular story that captures that all-important and loving dynamic between a child and a toy. Readers will always treat their toys with more care after reading this!
The touching story of a little girl and her beloved teddy bear, lost and reunited, from award-winning author Frances Stickley.
Harriet never goes anywhere without her beloved bear Blue, so when they become separated he knows that Harriet must be searching for him. Blue might be lost, but he never loses hope. Days, months and years pass, until one day Blue finds himself on a stall at a summer fete. He catches sight of a little girl who looks just like Harriet... but it can't be, wouldn't she be grown up by now? And why does the little girl's mum look so familiar to him?
Adult and child alike will fall in love with Blue the bear in this story of the everlasting and pure love between a teddy bear and his little girl.
Frances is a primary school teacher who first realised her love for writing with the poem, 'My Dad's Milkfloat', when she was six. She is an award-winning academic, a trained chidren's literacy specialist, and winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust short story prize 2017. She lives with her family and a big-eared dog in Derbyshire. And when she is not writing, you'll find her in the forest pretending to be a dragon with her daughters.
