Loved to Bits - Hardcover

Heapy, Teresa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250186943 ISBN 13: 9781250186942

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2018

Synopsis

A wonderfully exuberant teddy bear and his little boy go on all sorts of grand adventures collecting stories (and a few scrapes and bruises) along the way in Loved to Bits, a picture book about friendship from Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson.

Ted and his boy do everything together.
They fight beasts and have feasts.
They tickle monsters then flee on rafts,
They search, explore, escape. . . . and laugh.

But sometimes things get rough, and Teddy loses an ear.
He's still got his best one though, never fear!
And an eye? PING!
It's nothing―he didn't feel a thing!
A leg, then the other. An arm, and then the next.
What do you do with a broken Ted?

You lay down with him at night and snuggle in bed.

About this title

About the Author:

Teresa Heapy is an award-winning picture book author. Her books include The Marvellous Moon Map, illustrated by David Litchfield, and the Very Little picture book series, illustrated by Sue Heap: Very Little Red Riding Hood, Very Little Cinderella, Very Little Sleeping Beauty and Very Little Rapunzel. She lives in Oxford, England, with her family.

Katie Cleminson is an author-illustrator living in Devon, England. Her picture books including Otto the Book Bear have won three awards, and have been translated into ten languages. Katie's work has been exhibited in London, Poland, Italy, Japan and Korea. Katie draws with an ink pipette, and often uses charcoal and watercolor paint in her work.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 1- A child narrator and his beloved teddy bear, Stripy Ted, imagine and play together in bed. The boy and his bear have adventures "around [the] bed/from dreams we had,/and books we read." Presumably after years of make-believe fun, Stripy Ted needed a wash, has lost an ear, an eye, a leg, an arm, until "the last stitch tore and Stripy Ted fell to the floor." Now battered, worn-out, and simply a body with a head, the little boy appreciates the bear even more in his well-loved condition. Heapy's story line will be easily accessible for young readers, and Cleminson's expressive, warm renderings, drawn with ink pipette, charcoal, and watercolor, are delicate, thoughtful, and whimsical. VERDICT A simple, tender addition to children's stories about imaginative play and security toys, perfect for bedtime reading. Recommended for purchase.-Brianne ­Colombo, Fairfield Free Public Library, NJα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1250186943
• ISBN 13: 9781250186942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Cleminson Katie