Big Growly Bear Reads by the Fire
DADDY: “Hullo Big Growly Bear.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Hullo Daddy.”
DADDY: “What are you doing?”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Well, it’s cold outside today, so I thought I would pull out some of your beautifully illustrated books and sit here by the drawing room fire, reading. I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your antiquarian books.”
DADDY: “Oh, not at all, Big Growly Bear. I know I can trust you with them, as you are soft and gentle with them, and so well behaved. It’s good that you are reading them. What one have you chosen for now?”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “I am reading Beauty and the Beast.”
DADDY: “Oh yes. That’s Paddy’s favourite faerie tale.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “This is your 1916 edition of ‘The Old Fairy Tales’ volume number two, illustrated by H. M. Brock.”
DADDY: “Yes, I recognise the illustrations.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Would you care to join me, Daddy, oh and Paddy too, of course if he’d like. There is plenty of room on the stool for all of us. We can read whilst we toast our toes.”
DADDY: “That’s an excellent idea, Big Growly Bear. I’ll just make us a nice pot of warming tea, and then I will join you. I’ll find Paddy and ask him if he would like to join us too.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “That’s a capital idea, Daddy.”
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 21st of August is “backside”, where the challenge is to photograph the back view of a person, animal, model of a person (like a doll) or a model of an animal (like a cuddly bear). When I saw the theme, I felt that I should like to introduce Big Growly Bear, my big yellow mohair bear with a somewhat stern face (which you can see here www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/49915374176 as faces, even in profile are not permitted for this challenge). He was my Grandmother’s bear, passed down to my Mother and then to me, and he is 99 years old and in remarkably good shape for one who is almost a centenarian! He asked if he might dress up for his photo, so he is wearing one of his favourite ribbons of mauve satin, which he feels compliments his mohair plush. I hope that he makes you smile!
Growly Bear, the big yellow mohair bear with a somewhat stern face, was bought for my Grandmother from Hamley's Toy Shop in London in 1922. He is covered in mohair and has amber glass eyes, has articulated arms, legs and a head, and was named Growly Bear because he used to growl when you turned him upside down. He was still growling when my Mother was a child. My Uncle, born three years after my Mother, christened him The Big One, because he was the biggest teddy bear in the nursery. When he came to me as a child, I amalgamated the two names and called him, Big Growly Bear.
Growly Bear is reading my 1916 first edition of “The Old Fairy Tales” volume two, published by F. W. Warne and Company in London. There are three volumes in the set, and this volume features the faerie tales of Hop-O’-My-Thumb and Beauty and the Beast. It is illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, who was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge. The three volumes of “The Old Fairy Tales” are quite rare.
Big Growly Bear Reads by the Fire
DADDY: “Hullo Big Growly Bear.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Hullo Daddy.”
DADDY: “What are you doing?”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Well, it’s cold outside today, so I thought I would pull out some of your beautifully illustrated books and sit here by the drawing room fire, reading. I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your antiquarian books.”
DADDY: “Oh, not at all, Big Growly Bear. I know I can trust you with them, as you are soft and gentle with them, and so well behaved. It’s good that you are reading them. What one have you chosen for now?”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “I am reading Beauty and the Beast.”
DADDY: “Oh yes. That’s Paddy’s favourite faerie tale.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “This is your 1916 edition of ‘The Old Fairy Tales’ volume number two, illustrated by H. M. Brock.”
DADDY: “Yes, I recognise the illustrations.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “Would you care to join me, Daddy, oh and Paddy too, of course if he’d like. There is plenty of room on the stool for all of us. We can read whilst we toast our toes.”
DADDY: “That’s an excellent idea, Big Growly Bear. I’ll just make us a nice pot of warming tea, and then I will join you. I’ll find Paddy and ask him if he would like to join us too.”
BIG GROWLY BEAR: “That’s a capital idea, Daddy.”
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 21st of August is “backside”, where the challenge is to photograph the back view of a person, animal, model of a person (like a doll) or a model of an animal (like a cuddly bear). When I saw the theme, I felt that I should like to introduce Big Growly Bear, my big yellow mohair bear with a somewhat stern face (which you can see here www.flickr.com/photos/40262251@N03/49915374176 as faces, even in profile are not permitted for this challenge). He was my Grandmother’s bear, passed down to my Mother and then to me, and he is 99 years old and in remarkably good shape for one who is almost a centenarian! He asked if he might dress up for his photo, so he is wearing one of his favourite ribbons of mauve satin, which he feels compliments his mohair plush. I hope that he makes you smile!
Growly Bear, the big yellow mohair bear with a somewhat stern face, was bought for my Grandmother from Hamley's Toy Shop in London in 1922. He is covered in mohair and has amber glass eyes, has articulated arms, legs and a head, and was named Growly Bear because he used to growl when you turned him upside down. He was still growling when my Mother was a child. My Uncle, born three years after my Mother, christened him The Big One, because he was the biggest teddy bear in the nursery. When he came to me as a child, I amalgamated the two names and called him, Big Growly Bear.
Growly Bear is reading my 1916 first edition of “The Old Fairy Tales” volume two, published by F. W. Warne and Company in London. There are three volumes in the set, and this volume features the faerie tales of Hop-O’-My-Thumb and Beauty and the Beast. It is illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, who was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge. The three volumes of “The Old Fairy Tales” are quite rare.