Barely Bears

Collectable Dean’s Bears Made From Goats And Alpacas!

Dean’s Bears were born from a company that started publishing children’s books in 1711.  They first diversified into rag books and dolls patterns, before manufacturing their first teddy bears in 1914. Through a turbulent 20th century the company rolled with the changing fortunes of industry – stopping toy production to support the country during the second world war and seeing UK production become uncompetitive when imports from the far east became commonplace.

Since the late 1980s when the company was bought by Neil and Barbara Miller, Dean’s Bears have found themselves a special niche in the Teddy Bear world.  The bears produced today are of a traditional style made with the finest quality materials.  

The bears are all fully jointed – which means their arms, legs and head move with traditional cotter-pin joints.  The soft fur is made from two different natural materials; mohair is the more often-used material for Dean’s bears – it comes from angora goats and is a much finer and stronger fibre than sheep’s wool, with a beautiful sheen that can also be dyed very successfully.  The second quality material used for Dean’s teddy bears is alpaca.  Alpacas are related to llamas but bred primarily for their excellent fibres.

The teddy bears produced by Dean’s Bears today are beautifully-detailed, strictly Limited Edition pieces.  Limitations vary from just 30 to a maximum of 100 which means that many bears sell out quickly after their first appearance in Dean’s Bears’ catalogue and on the website.  Most bears are designed by the Miller family, with a few exceptions which are designed by carefully-selected teddy bear artists with distinctive styles.  

Dean’s Bears have established themselves over many decades as the first and finest British manufacturer of teddy bears.  Their bears are sold worldwide and special editions produced, from time to time, for the international teddy bear markets of Japan and the USA.  Dean’s Bears fans can join the collector’s club and receive a special edition annual bear, badge and club newsletters.  Dean’s Bears are highly prized and collected worldwide – the company proudly boasts one of the largest teddy bear collectors clubs in the world – confirmation of their status as one of the best-loved teddy bear brands ever!

About the Author

Corfe Bears is a teddy bear shop and website based in the South of England.  Main stockist of all collectable teddy bear brands including Dean’s Bears, Steiff and Charlie Bears

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LITTLE BEAR:LITTLE BEARS BAND BY LITTLE BEAR (DVD) $25.74 To celebrate the anniversary of Grandmother and Grandfather Bear, Little Bear and his friends put on a musicfilled celebration. Artist: LITTLE BEAR Genre: Television: Series Rating: NR Release Date: 7JUN2005

VECKATIMEST BY GRIZZLY BEAR (CD) [2 DISCS] $41.07 Artist: GRIZZLY BEAR Genre: Popular Music Release Date: 17NOV2009

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Baby Bear Sees Blue $13.59 Leaving the den as the weather warms, Baby Bear discovers blue birds, red strawberries, orange butterflies and other colorful things in nature, in a stunningly illustrated picture book by a best-selling author/artist.

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Thomas Kinkade Collector Jimmy Bear By Russ Berrie $24.99 Thomas Kinkade Collector Jimmy Bear By Russ Berrie This beautiful bear is a 25th Anniversary Edition to mark Thomas Kinkades 25th anniversary as a published artist. Thomas Kinkade Jimmy Bear Collectible bear in collector s box. Measures 11H x 9.25W x 4D . Thomas Kinkade is known as the Painter of Light. He is Americas most collected artist of all time.

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Art In The Cinematic Imagination $26.39 Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as cinematic and narrative motifs. From the use of portraits in Vertigo to the cinematic depiction of women artists in Artemisia and Camille Claudel, Susan Felleman incorporates feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to reveal individual and collective perspectives on sex, gender, identity, commerce, and class.Probing more than twenty films from the postwar era through contemporary times, Art in the Cinematic Imagination considers a range of structurally significant art objects, artist characters, and art-world settings to explore how the medium of film can amplify, reinvent, or recontextualize the other visual arts. Fluently speaking across disciplines, Felleman’s study brings a broad array of methodologies to bear on questions such as the evolution of the Hollywood Love Goddess and the pairing of the feminine with death on screen.A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, Art in the Cinematic Imagination illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.

Assembling Panoramic Photos $19.95 In this full-color Designer’s Notebook, eight expert French photographers reveal their secrets in using Photoshop and a collection of dedicated applications to create extraordinary panoramic photos–including some amazing 360-degree images. For anyone involved with digital imagery or animation, this groundbreaking volume demonstrates a new way of thinking about what’s possible and what’s required to produce these images. Originally published in France, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer’s Notebook is available in English for the first time. Part art book, part how-to guide, this stunning work takes you right into the studio and sits you down next to renowned digital artists as they advance step-by-step toward their final images. The showcased pieces are inspiring and avant-garde, and the techniques are instructive for a wide range of amateur and professional photographers, graphic designers, and digital artists. The artists featured in this Designer’s Notebook show how they use Photoshop, Stitcher, PanaVue ImageAssembler, and other specialized tools to create high-quality panoramas and wide-angle images from a series of photos. They also show how to create virtual reality scenes with Apple’s QuickTime VR in conjunction with leading-edge technologies that support 360-degree one-shot photos, cubic images, and 3D views of objects. The results are interactive, often startling, and bear the hallmark of each artist’s original vision and skill. Reflecting the very best of French photography, graphic design and digital artistry, Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer’s Notebook offers advanced Photoshop instruction that goes beyond opening this menu, or clicking thatpalette. You receive expert aesthetic guidance, from start to finish, with notes and views that reveal every step of the process. This book is a goldmine for any digital artist who wants to learn new Photoshop techniques and exploit them for maximum effect. At home on either your coffee t

Baby Bear’s Christmas Kiss $12.21 back cover] . . . warmth and tender, loving affection beam out of every picture (Manchester) Guardian It’s Christmas Day and the whole family has come to visit. Baby Bear and the cousins are so excited they shake and poke and sniff all the presents under the tree. But suddenly Baby Bear realizes — Grandbear doesn’t have a present! With simple, poignant details, Prater captures all the joy and warmth of a family at Christmas time. [front flap] Baby Bear’s Christmas Kiss John Prater There’s plenty of excitement in the air. The entire Bear family has arrived at Baby Bear’s home to celebrate Christmas. Baby Bear and his cousins are happy with anticipation until suddenly Baby Bear realizes that Grandbear doesn’t have a present. Baby Bear decides to go out and find a gift for Grandbear–but what in the world can he find? This latest title in John Prater’s delightful series of picture storybooks about Baby Bear and his loving grandfather will add an extra note of enjoyment to the holiday fun of every child who opens it. [back flap] About the Author John Prater is an artist who lives and teaches in Portsmouth, England. In addition to writing and illustrating children’s books, he gives frequent talks and art demonstrations to school children throughout England. He has written and illustrated several Baby Bear books that are available in North America from Barron’s. They include Is It Christmas?, Number One, Tickle Your Tum, and Hold Tight!

Bear All Year $6.07 Two long-out-of-print children’s books, illustrated by Caldecott-winning artist Arnold Lobel, are back to delight kids once more with brighter colors and new cover design. Each title features Bear on an adventure that lets young readers engage in a guessing game. Full color.

Bear in Love $12.99 Just one look was all it took for Bear to fall in love with Bunny. But how should Bear show his love? With delightful illustrations by award-winning artist Fatus, warm and witty words perfectly express how love casts its spell on man and beast! Full color.

Bear in Underwear $12.99 Bestselling pop artist Goldman presents a zany story about a bear, a backpack filled with underwear, and a group of furry friends who cheer him on. The cover features printed fabric tighty-whities. Full color.

Beaver Steals Fire $12.95 A long time ago, fire belonged only to the animals in the land above, not to those on the earth below. Curlew, keeper of the sky world, guarded fire and kept it from the earth. Coyote, however, devised a clever plan to steal fire, aided by Grizzly Bear, Wren, Snake, Frog, Eagle, and Beaver. These brave and resourceful animal beings raided the land above and risked all to steal fire from Curlew. Beaver Steals Fire is an ancient and powerful tale springing from the hearts and experiences of the Salish people of Montana. Steeped in the rich and culturally vital storytelling tradition of the tribe, this tale teaches both respect for fire and awareness of its significance, themes particularly relevant today. This unforgettable version of the story is told by Salish elder Johnny Arlee and beautifully illustrated by tribal artist Sam Sandoval.

Bedtime for Bear $16.99 An original new bedtime book from celebrated bestselling artist Helquist. Full color.

Beyond Memory $70 Photography possesses a powerful ability to bear witness, aid remembrance, shape, and even alter recollection. In Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art, the general editor, Diane Neumaier, and twenty contributors offer a rigorous examination of the medium’s role in late Soviet unofficial art. Focusing on the period between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, they explore artists’ unusually inventive and resourceful uses of photography within a highly developed Soviet dissident culture. During this time, lack of high-quality photographic materials, complimented by tremendous creative impulses, prompted artists to explore experimental photo-processes such as camera and darkroom manipulations, photomontage, and hand-coloring. Photography also took on a provocative array of forms including photo installation, artist-made samizdat (self-published) books, photo-realist painting, and many other surprising applications of the flexible medium. Beyond Memory shows how innovative conceptual moves and approaches to form and contenechoes of Soviet society’s coded communication and a Russian sense of absurdity–were common in the Soviet cultural underground. Collectively, the works in this anthology demonstrate how late-Soviet artists employed irony and invention to make positive use of difficult circumstances. In the process, the volume illuminates the multiple characters of photography itself and highlights the leading role that the medium has come to play in the international art world today. Beyond Memory stands on its own as a rigorous examination of photography’s place in late Soviet unofficial art, while also serving as a supplement to the travelingexhibition of the same title.

Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri $35 This is the first volume in Macmillan”s mini-art series to feature the work of an Indigenous artist. Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri”s paintings all bear the same title, ”Rockholes and Country near the Olgas”. They describe in his own unique manner a Dreamtime story about the creation of the landscape and its features which has been passed down through generations of ancestors.

Catch of the Day Grand Bear Sculpture $219 TXG1059: Vying for the title of most realistic of all the magnificent sculpts we’ve ever offered, this ursine fisherman is powerfully impressive in both size and detail! An avid student of the natural world, artist Lightfoot has managed to adeptly embody the spirit of the wild in his majestic bear garden statue, perfect for the edge of a pool or pond. Our master angler is cast in quality designer resin and painstakingly hand-painted to impressively capture every detail of fur, fin and claw in mid-catch! Features: -Sculpture. -Quality designer resin construction. -Hand painted. -Design Toscano exclusive.

Cezanne $22.95 With his distinctive paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) profoundly influenced the Cubists and the direction of twentieth century art. In this lively account of the artist’s life and work, Mary Tompkins Lewis traces Cezanne from his early years in Alx-en-Provence, struggling to become a painter in the face of opposition from his father, through his time in Paris studying the Old Masters and working with the Impressionists, to his later, reclusive years back in Provence, when he produced the pictures than made him the precursor of a new art.But however important Cezanne’s work was for later generations, Lewis argues that it can be fully understood only in the context of both the social and historical circumstances of late nineteenth-century France, and the regional aspirations and tensions of Provence. This is the first study of Cezanne to bring biographical, formal and contextual approaches to bear on the artist’s full career. In doing so, Lewis has shed new light on Cezanne as an artist of his own time and place.

Christmas Night Light – Celebrate the Season – Polar Bear $16.99 This is a very fun Christmas night light showing a skating Polar Bear. The image is by talented artist Janet Stever. This light makes a very unique gift and perfect as a stocking stuffer, office gift, or grab bag gift. This is a very popular light and will look great in any room in your house! This photographic image is printed in the USA using high quality inks. **PLEASE NOTE** Unlike cheaper night lights, the light bulb on these decorative lights are fully enclosed! No more seeing an exposed bulb when looking at the night light from the side. You’ll love the richness of the light as it provides you with both safety and improved visual attractiveness. This is an extremely well built and solid unit!

Cocoa Cabana Mini Storage Box in Pink $59 This storage box makes a great gift! – LXS1492: Give this mini decorative storage box as the perfect baby shower gift for any couple expecting a girl. You can also use it in the baby’s bedroom to keep toys and accessories accessible. Each storage box is completely hand-finished. The texture of the brush strokes makes it feel and look like an original hand painted album. This truly is art with a function! Features: -Teddy bear theme. -Constructed with solid wood. -Signed and numbered by artist Sandra Satz. -Soft flannel tie bag included. -Brass hinges and lid support. -Overall dimensions: 3 H x 7.5 W x 6.5 D.

Cocoa Cabana Teddy Book Organizer in Pink $56.79 This book organizer is perfect for your home! – LXS1272: Use this book organizer to hold your magazines, books, or whatever needs organizing with an artistic flare and style all its own. The Cocoa Cabana Teddy book organizer is great for holding a young girl’s favorite stories. This is the perfect book organizer for any room of the house and also makes a great desk organizer. Made with only the highest quality materials, this item is hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Also available in teal. Features: -Teddy bear theme. -Signed and numbered by artist Sandra Satz. -Soft flannel tie bag included. -Overall Dimensions: 12 H x 7 W x10.5 D.

Cocoa Cabana Teddy Book Organizer in Teal $56.79 This book organizer is perfect for your home! – LXS1273: Use this book organizer to hold your magazines, books, or whatever needs organizing with an artistic flare and style all its own. The Cocoa Cabana Teddy book organizer is great for holding a young boy’s favorite stories. This is the perfect book organizer for any room of the house and also makes a great desk organizer. Made with only the highest quality materials, this item is hand-signed and numbered by the artist. Also available in pink. Features: -Teddy bear theme. -Signed and numbered by artist Sandra Satz. -Soft flannel tie bag included. -Overall Dimensions: 12 H x 7 W x10.5 D.

Conversations With Chaim Potok $35.65 One of America’s most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita’s Harp (1985). Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls core-to-core culture confrontation. Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world-class Judaic scholar who has also published children’s books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories.Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999. Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels-in particular, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — on his work. Interviews bear witness to Potok’s many other influences — Orthodox Jewish doctrine, Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Picasso’s Guernica, and Jewish kabbalah mysticism.Though labeled an American Jewish writer, Potok argues that Flannery O’Connor should then be called an American Catholic writer and John Updike an American Protestant writer. In his mind, editor Daniel Walden writes, just as Faulkner was a writer focused on a particular place, Oxford, Mississippi, . . . so Potok’s territory was a small section of New York City. Potok often explores conflict in his writings and in his interviews. Strict Jewish teachings deem fiction an artifice and therefore unnecessary, yet since the age of sixteen Potok has been driven to write novels. At the root of all of these conversations is Potok’s intenseinterest in the turmoil between Jewish culture, religion, and tradition and what he calls Western secular humanism. As he discusses his work, he continually includes broader issues, such as the state of Jewish literature and art, pointing out with pride and enthusiasm his belief tha

Count Your Blessings $12.99 The creative die-cuts and shimmering foil help kids learn to count their blessings. Little Bear thinks his blessings are like the stars in the sky. He could never count them all. But this night, he decides to use the ten big, sparkly stars to help him count a few. As Little Bear describes each blessing and the child turns a page, one sparkly star disappears from the sky.A wonderful display of creative die-cuts and a sparkly foil for the stars.Helps kids count as they learn to thank God for their blessingsWonderful detail and texture in the illustrationsIllustrated by a noted children”s artist

Disney Fun For All Super Game Pack CD $19.99 Join Your Friends from Disney in games and activities that are Fun for All. In Disney s Extremely Goofy Skateboarding, sharpen coordination with Max and Goofy with outrageous audio and visual demonstrations. With Disney Pixar Learning 1st grade explore fun activities in math, reading, language arts, geography and more! Disney Magic Artist Studio will bring out the artist in every child as you draw, paint, and create with your favorite Disney characters. Winnie the Pooh Activity Center – Have a honey of a time catching buzzin bees while reading along with Winnie the Pooh. Join Mickey on a quest to uncover the magic of phonics fun – in Disney Phonics Quest! In Brother Bear, play through a tale of brotherhood, bears and breathtaking outdoor adventure.

Dog And Bear $5.99 A classic story from award-winning artist Laura Vaccaro Seeger, author and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor book First the Egg, now repackaged in a brand-new format for beginning readers.

Drawing Lessons from a Bear $15.99 With characteristic whimsy and lively watercolors, McPhail portrays the unusual life of an artist who just happens to have been born a bear, and tells young readers how they can be artists, too. Full color.

Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils $75 Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four decades, until the artist”s death in 1669. This catalogue explores the workings of Rembrandt”s studio in the form of drawings made by the master himself and fifteen of his pupils. Rembrandt and his students would often depict the same subject matter as an exercise and make drawings of the same nude models. Organized chronologically, Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference is a groundbreaking study that presents more than forty works by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. It explores the scholarship of recent decades that has brought new and more systematic criteria to bear on determining the authenticity of Rembrandt drawings, and defines the styles of his pupils and followers with ever-greater precision.This is an essential book for anyone interested in the Dutch Golden Age or the lives and careers of Rembrandt and the artists in his immediate circle.

Eleanor Grosch Bear Journal $9.95 This elegant wire-o journal features the eye-catching work of silkscreen artist Eleanor Grosch.

Elvis 75 – Good Rockin’ Tonight – Piano/ Vocal/ Guitar Artist Songbook $27.99 2010 marks the 75th birthday of The King, and a four-disc boxed set of his best has been released to commemorate Presley’s prolific career. Our matching songbook includes 99 songs: All Shook Up * Are You Lonesome Tonight? * Blue Christmas * Blue Suede Shoes * Can’t Help Falling in Love * Don’t Be Cruel (To a Heart That’s True) * Heartbreak Hotel * Hound Dog * Jailhouse Rock * A Little Less Conversation * Love Me Tender * Return to Sender * (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear * That’s All Right * Viva Las Vegas * and many more.

Finding Water $3.65 This third book in Julia Cameron’s bestselling trilogy on the creative process-beginning with The Artist’s Way and Walking in This World -offers guidance on weathering the periods in an artist’s life when inspiration appears to have run dry. Julia Cameron presents a new twelve-week program for addressing those periods in an artist’s life when inspiration is lacking. Finding Water offers advice and wisdom about tackling the most challenging issues an artist faces, such as: – making the decision to begin a new project; – persevering when a new approach to your art does not bear immediate fruit; – staying focused when other parts of your life threaten to distract you from your art; and – spotting possibilities for artistic inspiration in the most unlikely places. This powerful new installment in Cameron’s groundbreaking body of work on the creative process will guide readers to discover enduring inspiration-it will lead them to water.

Fishing for Trouble Bear Statue – Size: Grande $798 TXG1118: Artist Lightfoot’s love affair with the fearsome power of nature is embodied in the raw energy and muscular beauty of the majestic black bear. Our Toscano-exclusive bear statue rises to stand and pay tribute to this massive solitary hunter. Cast in quality designer resin to capture details from grande-scale paws to powerful jaw, this awe-inspiring creature epitomizes nature’s magnificence. Features: -Statue. -Available in large or grande size. -Quality designer resin construction. -Hand painted. -Design Toscano exclusive. -Large statue dimensions: 28 H x 15 W x 13 D. -Grande statue dimensions: 60 H x 27 W x 26 D.

Gilbert Stuart $65 The most successful and resourceful portraitist of America’s early national period, Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) possessed enormous natural talent, bringing his witty and irascible manner to bear on each of his works. This handsome book highlights Stuart’s achievements by presenting more than ninety portraits of exceptional quality, ranging from the early works he produced in Newport, Rhode Island, to those he executed just before his death in Boston.Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles show how Stuart developed and maintained a distinctive portrait style, tailoring his portrayals to fit his subjects. They trace the development of his art from his hometown of Newport, where he proved his talent, to his years in London and Dublin, where he mastered the techniques of the English late-eighteenth-century Grand Manner, to his return to America (no longer the Colonies but now the United States), where he dealt with clients in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston. The authors provide a short essay about Stuart in each of the sites of his production, which introduces the works painted there. There is also a special section devoted to Stuart’s famous and popular portraits of Washington, the so-called Vaughan, Athenaeum, and Lansdowne portraits. These works are discussed in terms of patronage, technique, chronology, and interpretation.The most comprehensive book on the artist’s work to date, Gilbert Stuart is essential for anyone who admires American art and history.

Grand Street #71: Danger $1.01 Roman Signer’s work has appeared in the 1977 Venice Biennale and Documenta 8, as well as in numerous group exhibitions. The Swiss artist’s action sculptures involve carrying out experiments or events that bear aesthetic results. In this issue, painter Mary Heilmann discusses Signer’s ironic take on the concept of cause and effect.

Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman $14.95 Beloved nature writer Helen Hoover tells a delightful children’s fable that will stir a sense of wonder and discovery in anyone who has ever felt the magic of the forest and imagined it a lively village of talking animals. Many years ago Great Wolf, a mighty hunter feared by all the animals in the forest, looked down on a deer, squirrel, and chickadee waiting for the Good Woodsman to provide a feast of cedar, corn, and seeds. The animals discover the Good Woodsman injured inside his house and with no fire in his stove. Worrying that he will freeze, the animals are disheartened that they have no way to help him. Great Wolf knew only he could rescue the Good Woodsman. When Great Wolf’s plan succeeds, the animals and the Good Woodsman invite the once-ostracized wolf to share Christmas dinner, and they realize that everyone has good things to offer if given the opportunity. Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, charmingly illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts by renowned artist Betsy Bowen, is a classic tale to be passed down and enjoyed by many generations. Helen Hoover (1910-1984) moved to the wilderness of northern Minnesota in the 1950s. She and her husband Adrian chronicled their observations and experiences of life near their home on Gunflint Lake in a number of well-loved books, including Gift of the Deer, The Years of the Forest, and A Place in the Woods, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Betsy Bowen operates a fine art print shop and studio at the edge of the wilderness near Lake Superior’s north shore. She is author and illustrator of Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year, Tracks in the Wild, Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book, andillustrator of A Wild Neighborhood (Minnesota, 1997) and Borealis (Minnesota, 2002).

Grumpy Cat $14.95 The talented author and artist of Big Smelly Bear creates an unforgettable, heartwarming story about a loner cat whose life changes after a determined little kitten enters the picture. Full color.

HEART BEAR collectible crystal figurine by CRYSTAL WORLD $39 You gotta have heart! Lots and lots and lots of heart. HEART BEAR, a popular crystal figurine from CRYSTAL WORLD’s Teddyland Collection, brings make memories of yesteryear. Designed by renowned artist, Nicholas Mulargia, this charming crystal collectible is handcrafted from the World’s Finest, Full-Cut, Faceted Crystal. HEART BEAR will make a perfect gift for teddy bear lovers, crystal collectors and the incurably romantic. Each crystal teddy bear miniature measures 1 Inch Tall. Gift Boxed.

Hang Cool Teddy Bear $18.98 Hang Cool Teddy Bear, whose title was taken from a line in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, is 13 tracks of classic Meat Loaf, primed and ready for the 21st century. More than four decades into his career, the man and his voice are as big, bold and relevant as ever. Meat Loaf’s creativity was sparked by working with a new collaborator, producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fleetwood Mac), a lifelong Meat Loaf fan who has worked with some of the most explosive names in rock music and who helped to foster a modern and contemporary vibe for the album. Of their relationship, Meat Loaf said, Rob is the number one rock producer in the world because he leaves his ego out of the equation and gives an artist his voice, making it sound better than the artist could even imagine. Thematically, like most Meat Loaf albums, Hang Cool Teddy Bear has a larger concept and was inspired by a short story written by Los Angeles screenwriter, director and longtime Meat Loaf friend Kilian Kerwin. It’s the story of a soldier, revealed Meat Loaf. He’s been in battle and he’s lying face down on the ground. He can’t move, but he turns his head and starts to see blood run across the ground, and so he thinks he’s going to die. They always say you see your life flash backward when you’re about to die. But his life flashes forward – into what possibly could happen. He sees what his life could be: the good and the bad. The songs are the different scenarios he finds himself in. It’s not always the same time or the same place, but it’s always the same woman. But I don’t want to give too much away. I want people to work it out for themselves. Hang Cool Teddy Bear also features a stellar array of big-name guests, including Steve Vai (who appears on Love is Not Real ), former Queen guitarist Brian May (who appears on Song of Ma

I Am a Little Polar Bear $5.99 What if animals could talk? These charming books each depict a day in the life of a young animal-as told by the animal itself! The simple stories will delight small children and the art is simply outstanding. Author-artist Francois Crozat was 1994 winner of the coveted Critici in Erba prize at the international Bologna Children’s Book Fair for his illustrations in I Am a Little Panda.

I Pledge Allegiance Big Book $24.99 I led a pigeon to the flag – - – and to the wee puppet . . . one nation, and a vegetable . . . What was that again? Children in the United States have been reciting the Pledge of Allegiance since 1892–and for about that long, they’ve found its big words confusing. Beloved children’s book author Bill Martin Jr ( Brown Bear, What Do You see?), fellow literacy expert Michael Sampson, and Caldecott Honor-winning artist Chris Raschka give America’s children a hand, and explain this patriotic poem once and for all.

I Will Never Forget You $24.95 In the ”30s and ”40s, photographer Nickolas Muray was Frida Kahlo”s friend, lover, and confidante. He continually photographed her over the course of their relationship, creating dozens of iconic portraits. Largely unpublished until now, the images reflect Muray”s love of his subject. An early adopter of color photography, he could hardly have wished for a more vibrant and compelling model. Having made self-portrait the key topic of her existential paintings, Kahlo staged herself before Muray”s camera with the same virtuosity she brought to bear on her own paintingsin traditional costumes, heavy jewelry, and hairstyles replete with flowersand the portraits became a joint endeavor tantamount to a record of performance art. I Will Never Forget You tells the story of their relationship in image and word, drawing on the pair”s poignant correspondence and artistic collaboration to paint a fresh portrait of a most beloved artist.

Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen $20 An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard. – Reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition. – Contains 24 full-color illustrations by Hildegard of Bingen. – Includes commentary by Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing (250,000 sold). Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was an extraordinary woman living in the Rhineland valley during most of the twelfth century. Besides being the abbess of a large and influential Benedictine abbey, she was a prominent preacher, healer, scientist, and artist. She also was a composer and theologian, writing nine books on theology, medicine, science, and physiology, as well as 70 poems and an opera. At the age of 42, she began to have visions; these were captured as 36 illuminations–24 of which are recorded in this book along with her commentaries on them. She also wrote a text describing these visions entitled Scivias (Know the Ways), now published as Hildegard of Bingen’s Mystical Visions. Author Matthew Fox has stated, If Hildegard had been a man, she would be well known as one of the greatest artists and intellectuals the world has ever seen. It is a credit to the power of the women’s movement and our times that this towering genius of Western thought is being rediscovered in her full grandeur and autonomy. Virtually unknown for more than 800 years in Western history, Hildegard was featured as one of the women in Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in the early 1980s and published for the first time in English by Bear Company in 1982. In addition to her mystical teachings, Hildegard’s music has been performed and recorded for a new andgrowing audience.