BROWN PAPER BEAR

Little Jessica is ill, and her grandfather assures her that he'll get her a new teddy bear. Later, a "magical light" appears, and Jessica finds an old teddy bear clumsily wrapped in brown paper. The bear comes to life and they fly off to a room stocked with live antique toys, all as big as Jessica or bigger. She rides a train, cavorts with a playful dog made of wood, and thrills to a trick-performing monkey. "I see you found my teddy bear," says her grandfather the next morning. Detailed watercolors accompany the text, printed in an oversize format with stiff brown butcher paper pages.