Hamish

By day, Hamish waits in the teddybear shop for a special person to come and buy him, enjoying night-time forays into the House of Teddies where he and his friends can play to their hearts’ content.

This is a fairly familiar theme, and the matching of child to doll or teddy can pull poignantly at the heartstrings. Here the text is not coherent enough nor the feelings explored adequately for our engagement: the story is entirely from Hamish’s point of view so we have no chance to assess the appropriateness of the outcome. The illustration is marginally better than the text but the whole seems inadequate for its purpose.