When the Teddy Bears Came

by Dale Penny (Author), Waddell Martin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.42

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $5.14

  When the new baby arrives in Tom's house, so too do the teddy bears. First Alice Bear comes, then Ozzie Bear with Uncle Jack and Sam Bear with Miss Wilkins. Tom gives the baby his Huggy bear, Rockwell and Dudley Bear are delivered in a van and Gran brings Dad's old Bodger Bear from her attic. Tom looks at them all on the couch beside Mum and the baby and says a little plaintively, There's no room for me . Mum hands the baby to Dad and Tom sits on her knee and is happy. No one is left out. They all take it in turns to look after the bears ...and the baby. Martin Waddell also writes under the pseudonym Catherine Sefton. For Walker Books, he has written Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? (Winner of the 1989 Smarties Book Prize and the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal); Let's Go Home, Little Bear ; The Park in the Dark (winner of the 1989 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award); Rosie's Babies (winner of the 1990 Best Books for Babies Award, and shortlisted for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal); Farmer Duck (Winner of the 1991 Smarties Book Prize); The Hidden House ; Squeak-a-Lot ; The Tough Princess ; the Little Dracula stories; Sailor Bear ; Owl Babies ; Little Mo ; The Pig in the Pond and The Big, Big Sea . For Walker, Penny Dale has illustrated The Stopwatch ; Once there were Giants and Rosie's Babies (shortlisted for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal), both by Martin Waddell, as well as her own stories, Bet You Can't! ; Ten in the Bed ; Ten Out of Bed ; The Elephant Tree ; All About Alice ; Play With Alice and Laura and Wake up, Mr B! (Commended for the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal).