As a kid, I was fortunate enough to be emotionally wrecked by The Velveteen Rabbit and have my little wounds healed by a live-action performance — puppets included — at a local children’s theater.

It was almost 9 p.m. in Munich, and I was on a bear hunt. I was determined to buy a Steiff, the makers of the original stuffed bear, in the country where it was born. Scrolling through my phone, I ...

If you own a stuffed animal with a yellow Steiff tag pinned in its ear, you have a descendant of one of the first teddy bears. While the stuffed bears were eventually named for President Theodore ...

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