Creations by today's top teddy bear makers are featured in this heartwarming collection of more than 100 lavish color photographs. Accompanying text by the former editor of Teddy Bear Review magazine introduces readers to the international spectrum of talented designers and makers behind the world's most lovable teddy bears. Mr Cronk, a well-respected authority on teddy bears, has also written a compelling and comprehensive introduction that presents a brief history of this popular plaything and traces, for the first time in print, the development of the current trend for making and collecting teddy bears.