The Roosevelt Bears
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6735)
United Kingdom
September 4, 2019 3:48am CST
I had not heard of the Roosevelt bears until my friend lent me a book about them. She had brought this book in an auction as part of a job lot of about sixty books. I was looking through the books that she had and I came across this book and I was immediately drawn to it. So she said that I could borrow it and now I am going to do some more research on these bears. I did see that the book was not originally published in the UK so I thought I would use this opportunity to start a discussion on myLot to see if any of you knew anything about the Roosevelt bears.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 Sep 19
I dimly remember seeing this book pass through my hands when I was a second-hand bookseller many years ago. I don't recall ever reading it, though. I believe that it was first published in 1904, which seems to me to be awfully soon after the reported incident in 1902 involving Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt which gave rise to the name 'teddy' for toy bears! Some authors are very much on the ball, it seems!
From the blurb on the LibriVox website, I learn that the bears in the story are grown-up bears (not soft toy teddies) named Teddy-B and Teddy-G who have marvellous and exciting adventures as they travel around America.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
4 Sep 19
Here's the history of the Teddy Bear, in case you didn't know about it:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 September 2019. Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see Teddy bear (disambiguation). Bear formerly owned by Kermit Roosevelt, thought to be made by Mich
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
4 Sep 19
Thank you for the information on these bears. I did wonder if this was a book aimed at children or adults or perhaps both. I see one of the bears is smoking so I assume the book is supposed to be for grown ups. I wonder what a first edition of this book would fetch at auction ?
How long did you work as a secondhand bookseller, did you own your own shop and how did you find your stock?
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
4 Sep 19
@owlwings Of course I knew it was a story , but I suppose children`s literature has changed so much since it was originally published. You sound like you had an interesting career as a bookseller, I would have loved to have been able to work with books.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
4 Sep 19
That is what I thought when I first saw it, but when I looked at it closer, I decided it was aimed at grown ups.
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@just4him (317877)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Sep 19
@lazydaizee I hope you enjoy reading it.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
4 Sep 19
@just4him I think I will enjoy reading it because it is very different to the books that I normally read. The story is told in poems and pictures, I enjoy looking at the pictures just as much as reading the text.
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@crossbones27 (49859)
• Mojave, California
5 Sep 19
Not really sounds familiar though. Life lessons come from everywhere.
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@crossbones27 (49859)
• Mojave, California
5 Sep 19
@lazydaizee We mish mash of cultures Bernstein Bears, Yogi Bear, hell Scooby Doo and Scrappy.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
5 Sep 19
@crossbones27 Scooby Doo was my favourite when I was a child. I always got scared until I realised that the plots were the same on every show. These programmes first started in the 1960s and it is nice to see that the characters are still popular today. Only a couple of years ago I was given a greetings card with Scooby Doo on the front of it and it really made me smile. I can still remember the theme tune from the show as it still sounds just as good today.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
5 Sep 19
Yes , you can learn lessons from anywhere in life as long as you wish to learn. You say the Roosevelt Bears sound familiar so perhaps you may have seen them before, or heard other people talking about them.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
7 Nov 19
That looks like a fun book.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
7 Nov 19
Yes , it is a fun book and it is the sort of book that I can look at more than once. This is unusual because normally when I have looked through or read a book once, I do not go back to it a second time.
@Letranknight2015 (52186)
• Philippines
4 Sep 19
This is the first time I've seen this kind of books about this bear.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
5 Sep 19
I had not heard of them before I saw this book, now I am interested in them.
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
5 Sep 19
It's so happen I have not yet hold that book, maybe I should have also.
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
5 Sep 19
I don`t think it is a rare book, so perhaps you may be able to find a copy of it.
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