The Bear on the High Shelf and Other Christmas Bear Stories

By Lazette Gifford

This is a short collection (10,700) of fluffy teddy bear stories and poems for the holidays. Learn how Aristotle Bear found his true home, the story of the Christmas House and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A Conspiracy of Authors
• Release date: Dec 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781936507276

Lazette Gifford

Lazette is an avid writer as well as the owner of Forward Motion for Writers and the owner/editor of Vision: A Resource for Writers.It's possible she spends too much time with writers.And cats.

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The Bear on the High Shelf

And Other Christmas Bear Stories

By

Lazette Gifford

Copyright 2012 Lazette Gifford

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ISBN: 978-1-936507-27-6

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Table of Contents

The Bear on the High Shelf

The Missing Bows -- A Teddy Bear Christmas Mystery

Thomas T. Bear goes to a Party

Seven Little Teddy Bears

A Very Proper Little Bear

The Undecorated Christmas Tree

Aristotle Tells a Story (The Christmas House)

The Teddy Bear Christmas Decree

Squirrel and Bunny's Christmas Party

Aristotle's Christmas Mission

Bearly Christmas

About the Author

Extra: Excerpt from Joey Mousekin's Tale

The Bear on the High Shelf

The shelf was too high!

The teddy bear watched as people stopped to study the stuffed animals on the shelves below him. They often took a lucky one home with them, but few patrons of the crowded, small shop ever looked up at the shelf far above their heads. Certainly, the children never saw him, the only teddy bear on the shelf near the ceiling.

He knew he wasn't a very spectacular teddy bear; a good bear, by all means, but not a showy one. He was a good size to hold, beyond a doubt, with a properly stuffed and fat little belly. His neatly curled fur was a suitable bear-brown, and each paw ended with a soft, velour pad. Round ears sat evenly above bright black and brown eyes, with his black-thread nose stitched very correctly at the end of an appropriate muzzle.

He was, all in all, a very proper bear, as long as no one noticed that his mouth was a bit lopsided, and the placement of his otherwise perfect eyes gave him a permanently startled look. Maybe his multicolored bow never folded down just right, but he held to the faith that a human hand could easily fix the problem.

Luckily, no one down there could see his embarrassingly round tail. He feared people might think he borrowed it from one of the stuffed bunnies. Still, the tail did an admirable job of keeping him from falling over, so he considered it a proper teddy bear tail after all.

But that didn't matter. No one ever looked up at him.

He became quite a philosophical little bear, sitting alone on that shelf. After a couple months, when even the shopkeeper forgot to dust him, he realized he wouldn't make a very good child's toy. He now spent too much time in introspection, often musing about the nature of the universe, the place of humans and teddy bears, and the verities of retail sales. He became a very wise bear, watching everyone pass through the store. He could, in fact, often predict sales during the long days. This woman would take home a glass cat and that man one of the odd looking ceramic gnomes. The couple would take home one of the other bears.

He didn't even mind so much. .