Elmer and the Lost Teddy

Name: William Joseph
Price range: $

by David McKee

Interest age: 0+
Reading age: 5+

Published by Andersen Press, 2008

Classics
Picture books

About this book

When Baby Elephant loses his teddy and can't sleep, Elmer lends him his own, promising to help find the lost one.

As he searches the forest for the missing bear he discovers that each of the baby animals there has a teddy which is special for them.

McKee's Elmer has now dazzled young and old in more than a dozen books for nearly 20 years, and the message throughout has been to celebrate difference.

In this republication of a 1999 title, McKee shows young readers that we each have special things which nobody else loves quite as we do. As ever, the pages are alive with vivid colour and pattern, and we meet old friends from other Elmer books.

About the author

David McKee was born and brought up in South Devon, where he went from grammar school to Plymouth Art College. Whilst still at college he started selling one-off cartoons to newspapers and on graduation, he began to contribute to such publications as Punch, the Times Education Supplement and Reader's Digest. His first book, Two Can Toucan, was published in 1964 and since then he has written and illustrated numerous children's books. Of his many beloved quirky characters, Elmer the Elephant and Mr Benn are possibly the most well-known. He died in April 2022, aged 87.