Can anyone help me remember this toy?

[StrawCherry]

I've tried my best to search online but so far can't find it.

It was a gift given to me in the late 90s as a child.
It was a cardboard box made to look like a book and when you opened it up it had a teddy bear inside. The book was red on one half and green or blue on the other. It has a gold clasp to close the book together.

Inside there was the bear. It was like a little house for him with a cardboard bed, table and wardrobe with cardboard clothes in.
I'm pretty sure the bear had two fabric outfits, one being pajamas.

I think he had a min bookshelf with teeny books on that you could turn the pages.

I'd really like to remember what it's called and see if I can find something similar for my dc.

We had a similar book called Goodnight Freckles around that time which was a zip up cloth book with detachable teddy. I think he had spare clothes and a miniature book within the book.

Goodnight Teddy by Francesca Ferri seems to be a more modern equivalent

Yes Goodnight Freckles - DD had it when she was little.

I remember I had a Jane Hissey book that had Little Bear in it. He had a pair of red shorts and pair of blue stripy pyjamas but I'm not sure what the rest of the book was like.

My sister had good night freckles! Such a cute book.

The one I'm thinking of wasn't actually a book. It was a box made to look like a book but had no actual pages. There were mini books inside you could look through.

Hi I’ve recently found myself looking for the name of the same toy/book. I had this when I was little and can’t remember the name of it but want to see if I can find it again. Did you ever find it by any chance?

Teddy Ruxpin?

Still haven't found it.

The book box it was in was smaller than a4 paper but bigger than a5. I'm pretty sure one of the teeny books inside was a recipe book. Another might have been a fairy tale book.

The teddy itself was about 6" tall.

Have you tried looking on ghostofthedoll.co.uk ?

Hey,
sorry to drag an old thread up but did you ever find this?

This is an old thread, but as soon as I read it, I had to reply! I have one of these, it still sits on my bookshelf. It's The Secret Life of Bears. Mine is all still intact- the bear, his clothes, little books, and notecards with mini envelopes, mini pencils etc. I still love looking at it every now and again!

Bit faded but still there...

Thank you so much!! You have no idea how thankful I am

@Sodafarl That's it!
Thank you so much for posting!

I like the Ted's ENORMOUS jar of honey! All ready for a midnight feast, presumably.

I have it, it was called the secret life of bears

Could you show us inside?

I’ve been on the hunt for this! I would love to
see inside the recipe book. I remember there being a really good honey biscuit recipe

I had this too 🥰 absolutely loved it. How wonderful that you kept it all these years

@Sodafarl wow! thank you for sharing a pic, this has completely took me back to my childhood as I had this book too! Would you mind taking a pic of the pages in the mini recipe book please? It’s something I’ve been looking for for such a long time and me and my sister were teyinf to recall the warm milk recipe but I’m sure there were some others.

I still miss those little books now 🥰 such a wonderful toy

hello - I’ve just signed up to mumsnet (I am not a mum!) because yet again, I found myself trawling the internet for this exact toy. I asked Reddit. I asked ChatGPT. I’ve been trying to find it for years. YEARS. And I don’t know why but tonight I decided to try again and I found this thread. I’m now crying in the bath because you incredible ladies gave me the name of my favourite toy as a kid, and PICTURES!! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart - I am amazed that I didn’t imagine it!!!