Celebrate National Teddy Bear Day on September 9, 2023!

In 1902, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was on a hunting trip in Mississippi, when he refused to shoot a bear. The owner of a candy store in Brooklyn, New York, named Morris Michtom, read about the incident, and he and his wife, Rose, created a stuffed bear in his honor – Teddy’s Bear.

In honor of National Teddy Bear Day 2023, learn more about bears (and about President Teddy Roosevelt)!

The Panda Cub Swap by Beth Bacon

To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Big Words) by Doreen Rappaport

The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks by Barb Rosenstock

Bears Are Best!: The Scoop about How We Sniff, Sneak, Snack, and Snooze! by Joan Holub

A Bear Far from Home by Susan Fletcher

Yellowstone (Earth's Incredible Places) by Cath Ard

Grizzly Bears: Guardians of the Wilderness (Orca Wild) by Frances Backhouse

Meet the Bears by Kate Peridot

Polar Bear by Candace Fleming

Animals Lost and Found: Stories of Extinction, Conservation, and Survival (Stories of Extinction) by DK

Save The...Polar Bears (Save the...) by Christine Taylor-Butler

Brothers in Arms: A True World War II Story of Wojtek the Bear and the Soldiers Who Loved Him by Susan Hood

Koala: A First Field Guide to the Cuddly Marsupial from Australia (Young Zoologist) by Chris Daniels

Do Bears Poop in the Woods? by Huw Lewis Jones

Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice by Jason Viola