A massive long shot but does anyone remember this kids book from the 80s?

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It was a book about a little boy and his teddy bear and what they got up to during the day.

The main thing I remember was that instead of drawings the pictures were all photographs and the bear was a small knitted brown one, whose name I think began with a B.

This was during the late 80s and I think I used to get it out during every other visit to the library (take it back one week and get it out the next). I can vividly remember my mum pleading with me once to get any other book out as she was fed up of reading it and we both knew it backwards anyway but I was resolute.

So annoying because I was utterly obsessed with it but now can't remember the name and Google isn't being any help.

But a sad story all turned out fine in the end and the real Dogger I understand still exists in the authors sons bedroom!
He’ll be in his 60s now.

Awww! 🤗

I was thinking Andy Pandy for some reason.

This was my first thought until I read the rest and knew it couldn't be.
Dogger was my absolute favourite growing up and over the years I lost the book probably during some house moves.
Anyway, I always thought about it so I went on Amazon and bought it again in my late 30's! The absolute joy at reading it again ❤️

I (80s/90s kid here) recall a book published by Medici (a company that did many lovely 1950s/60s picture books like Guinea Pig Podge and Fuzzy The Hedgehog) called Teddy Runs Away, but the teddy in that one has adventures without its child owner. So probably not quite the one.

I thought that the little boy lost Dogger, and his lovely big sister who I seem to remember doing handstands throughout the book, won a splendid Teddy Bear in some competition at the fete, and happily suggested to the kid that now had Dogger swapping it for poor lost Dogger. I read it as an adult and remember that there was a genuine, uncontrived niceness about the whole thing, and that for some reason it really moved me.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Book-Bear-Mouse/dp/0763649244

"Teddy Bear Story - Etsy UK" https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1355085790/teddy-bear-story

Bramwell Brown?

Biaolsky? Goes out, stays home. etc?

Barneby

Are you sure it isn’t PB Bear? Lovely photos in that one of him doing every day things. My kids loved it. PB Bear

Its not "Brown Paper Teddy Bear" by Catherine Allison is it?

Travels with Teddy?

The Winter Bear?

Does your mum remember any of the actual lines from the book? (Since it might be etched on her memory!) as might be possible to find it on Google books with a quote or two

It’s so dramatic! The boy spots Dogger on the toy stall but doesn’t have any money. By the time he gets back with the cash another girl has bought him. Meanwhile his sister Bella (soft toy enthusiast) has won a massive teddy bear with a beautiful silk bow. ‘And then Bella did a very kind thing’ 😭 and offers to swap her wonderful new teddy for Dogger.

Shirley Hughes is the best.

I can only think of the one where the toy was made out of a pullover! it was called Pullover! i remember that because my daughter wanted one but I didnt have time to knit it so i bought a sewing kit of a dog which had the letter M on its front! we called it M for Pullover! no wonder she got confused at school

The washing machine story is Tom and Pippo (who was a cuddly monkey).
He plays in the mud - ie is sitting propped up while Tom is playing in the mud, and has to go in the washing machine. That’s pretty much all that happens, but the illustrations are very charming and witty.

My Dd, whose teddy was a veteran of the washing machine himself, absolutely loved that story. I haven’t thought of it for years, but I think I could almost recite the whole thing even now.

Not lines no, she just remembers that the cover was a photo of the little boy and his knitted bear at the top of a climbing frame or slide because her heart would sink every time I pulled it out.

I think the lines were mainly sentences on what they were up to during the day "X and Y are going to slide down the slide". type thing. So not exactly War and Peace 😂.

@AdventCaroline
The washing machine story is Tom and Pippo (who was a cuddly monkey).
He plays in the mud - ie is sitting propped up while Tom is playing in the mud, and has to go in the washing machine. That’s pretty much all that happens, but the illustrations are very charming and witty.

Ooh I remember that one too, gosh this really is stirring up the nostalgia 😊.

That really made me laugh. But lovely the effort you went to.

The velveteen rabbit.

Bernstein bear?

Someone else is looking for a similar book but they believe it to be from the 70s or earlier

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/1gij73c/1970sorrearlierphotographhpicturebookkabouta/