This is the quintessential book about the Teddy Bear, telling the story of the beginnings of the huggable stuffed animal beloved all over the world by children and grownups alike.
It is a wonderful story, because it celebrates not one but four fathers, as well as a life-saving deed that warmed the heart and inspired the head of the little candy store man who actually made the first Teddy Bear.
The story began as an adventure in Mississippi involving one real-life little black bear and no less a personage than Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States, who was known to everyone as "Teddy." Then too there was a newspaper cartoonist named Clifford Berryman in Washington, who drew a cartoon based on the day’s headline to the effect that President Roosevelt did not shoot a bear.
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