The Loving Bear Puffy is the shape and size of a male human body — but has the head of a teddy bear. Puffy is “a very personal product invented by an ordinary woman who is afraid of being ...

Ruxpin, a murderous, cassette tape-controlled animatronic bear. Readers of a certain vintage will no doubt see the correlation to Teddy Ruxpin, an animatronic bear from the 1980s whose mouth moved ...

The toy took off, selling in the tens of thousands, enduring a brief controversy, and paving the way for beloved bears like Winnie the Pooh, who was inspired by a teddy bear purchased for A.A ...

President Theodore Roosevelt, often known as Teddy, went on a bear hunting trip near Onward, Mississippi, in November 1902 with a group of notables. Though others on the excursion bagged bears, as ...

An original Michtom teddy bear once held by two of Teddy Roosevelt’s great-grandchildren, Mark and Anne. NMAH A true history of the teddy bear begins in the American wilderness. In November ...

The first "Teddy bear" was put on sale on this day in history, Feb. 15, 1903. Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, the stuffed bear was first sold by Morris Michtom, a Brooklyn, New York ...

The stuffed toy later got its “Teddy” name thanks to a cartoon that appeared in The Washington Post in 1902 depicting Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear. Around the same time, Brooklyn candy ...

All dolls were welcome, Esper said, but the teddy bear—the plush, furry ursine that had become the toy trend of the moment—was not. “Though I shall not forbid it, I would like it understood ...

Vermont Teddy Bear and Vermont Flannel have announced the opening of a joint storefront on the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, coming this winter. The 2,000-square-foot space will be at ...