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We are huge fans of Sue Wickstead’s books. We have reviewed a few of them now! So we were eager to see what *Barty Barton: The Bear That Was Loved Too Much was about and if it was as good as the bright and fun Playbus books. Read on for our review and a giveaway!
Book Description
What happens when we outgrow our teddy bears?
Should we let them go?
Thomas loved his teddy bear, but over the years, Barty had become tatty and old.
However, Barty was no ordinary teddy bear, and he wasn’t about to give up on being loved.
What We Thought
We are huge fans of Sue’s Playbus stories so couldn’t wait to read this one! As usual with all her storybooks, Barty Barton is wonderfully illustrated and helps tell the story and keep young children engaged.
It is a lovely story about a teddy bear, who has had many hugs over the years and is now looking a little worse for wear. But with a little TLC and some re-plumping he is brought back with a new lease of life! Great for sharing with children that it’s OK to keep your childhood toys full of memories and anything can be brought to life again with some effort. I’m very sentimental and still have my childhood bears and many of my favourite childhood books.
Where Can I Buy?
Purchase Links
https://suewickstead.co.uk/shop
*Amazon https://amzn.to/3pN20gv
Author Bio
Sue Wickstead is a teacher and an author and writes children’s picture books with a bus theme. She has also written a photographic history book about the real bus, which is where her story writing began.
Sue once worked with a playbus charity based in Crawley. This led her to write the photographic history book about the project. The ‘Bewbush Playbus’ book was published in 2012.
Sue then began to write a fictional tale about the bus. ‘Jay-Jay the Supersonic Bus’, his number plate JJK261 gave him his name and has now been followed by more picture books (ten to date) which all indeed have a bus connection as well as links to her teaching journey.
Gloria is the most recent bus book and is based on the summer play-schemes which operated during the school holidays providing a safe place to play and to meet other children. (published 2020)
‘Barty Barton; the bear that was loved too much’ was also published in 2020. Barty was written for both her son and grandson.
Some of Sue’s books have been entered and shortlisted in ‘The Wishing Shelf Book Awards’, her book ‘A Spooky Tale’ was a silver medal winner in 2019. It is a story written with her class in school and is aimed at the younger reader.
Social Media Links
Web site : www.suewickstead.co.uk
Facebook: – Author Page https://www.facebook.com/storiesSue/
Facebook – Playbus page https://www.facebook.com/BewbushPlaybus/
Twitter https://twitter.com/JayJayBus
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayjaybusbooks/
Giveaway
Win a Lego bear and some teddy bear colouring sheets (UK only) plus a few more goodies.
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Thank you for your lovley review.
Barty would like to know the name of your white bear.
He looks cute
So glad you enjoyed Barty’s stoy. Did you spot the bus?
I’m sentimental about my toys too and still have my old teddy, stuffed full of straw with a loose glass eye and a tummy grumble that doesn’t work anymore but I still hug her at times. (MacMac in the book)
This looks a lovely story to share with little ones!
So so cute for my great neice