“A bear of little brain” however he is quite a wise bear with words like “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think,” a gentle, supportive friend who now has the honour of a National Awareness day on the 18th January which is A A Milne's birthday. I definitely get “rumbly in my tumbly” and as I get older I enter a room and forget why, I scratch my head and say “Think, think think” This first famous character bear has had quite an impact on our lives,...

Ever since I saw Toffee Bear, a 1950s character teddy in my book, The Teddy Bear Encyclopedia by Pauline Cockrill I had to have one,...