When Maria Fowler was pregnant with her first child, one of her first purchases for her daughter was a classic: A stuffed animal. She settled on a Sweet Heart Hugs Build-A-Bear, a soft ...

I rediscovered the habit of sleeping with stuffed animals in the terrifying early days of the pandemic, when I grabbed a polar bear from my childhood bedroom to ward off the onslaught of bad news ...

He had designed a stuffed toy bear in 1902, before the teddy bear became associated with Roosevelt. “But they kept at me to make the ‘Billy Possum’ and then nobody wanted it.” The company ...

Some were even scary.That all changed after Teddy Roosevelt, an avid big game hunter, refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree. The story inspired many and a cuter stuffed bear was created.

After the stuffed animals covered the ice, Chiefs players, wearing special teddy bear jerseys, flung themselves into the growing piles, then posed for pictures with some of the larger bears as ...

Precious Okoyomon marries the form of soft toys with technological invention. Their giant stuffed bear in the sun eats her children at Sant’ Andrea de Scaphis, Rome in 2023 was dressed in a ...