Grandpa Bodley and the Photographs

A rather unsatisfactory story about Hutchinson Bear and his Grandpa who come upon a box of old photographs in a cupboard. Hutchinson hears all about his family history as they look through them. The problem, to my mind, is that the writing is sentimental in an adult, soppy sort of way, the illustrations lack sufficient clarity to be easily interpreted by a young child and the teddy bear characters seems pointlessly self-indulgent. A much sharper story about real people lies in here somewhere and I'd have liked to read it rather than this one.