Continuing our mini-trend of children and beloved toys, this is a sweet and quiet book about a girl who finds a worse-for-wear bear at a tag sale. She purchases him (with some help from dad), repairs him (with some help from mom), bathes him, and loves him. When my oldest was a toddler, this was his very favorite book for a long, long time. I read it to him over and over and over again. Now he barely seems to remember it (and his little brother has not taken much of an interest in it). But I suspect this book will live with us forever.
Author: Sylvie Wickstrom
Illustrator: Sylvie Wickstrom