Corduroy's letter to Santa is full of requests for his friends, who will be spending Christmas Day with him, but Santa has a surprise in store for a very special bear, too.

When a boy loses his beloved blanket and bear, they travel a great distance to make their way back to him.

Eddie and his teddy bear meet a very big bear in the woods, and Eddie and the big bear become good friends.

Karen Hesse has achieved many honors for her more than twenty books over the course of her award-winning career: the Newbery Medial, The Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, The MacArthur Fellowship "Genius" Award, and the Christopher Medal. Her novels burn with intensity, and keenly felt, deeply researched, and are memorable for their imagination and intelligence. So it is with great pride and excitement that we present Karen Hesse's first novel...

A little boy overcomes his fear of the dark during a daring teddy bear rescue.

"A stuffed bear looking for a best friend believes he is meant to be a child's toy, but true friendship comes to him from a place he least expects"--

When Jonathan's parents decide that he has gotten too old to have a stuffed animal, they trade his favorite bear, Frederick, for a toaster, so he sets off aboard a boat to search for his old friend.

This story, told through the eyes of a young boy's toy bear, opens a window on a vanished Edwardian way of life. It also contains an eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic.

The further adventures of Patrick the little teddy bear as he goes on a picnic with his mother, tries to avoid his nap, goes to the bakery to buy cookies, and contends with the bullying Big Bear.

Yikes! Eddie's in for the surprise of his life when he discovers that his teddy bear has grown much too big to cuddle! But there's fun in store when Eddie meets up with a real bear who's got just the opposite problem his lost teddy bear has shrunk to a size that's much too small for such an enormous bear to cuddle.