Much Loved by Mark Nixon
My rating: 5/5 cats
i will never tire of books that show photos of much-loved stuffed animal companions. i have already read Chewed and Dirty Wow Wow and Other Love Stories: A Tribute to the Threadbare Companions of Childhood (and i still need to get my hands on Dirty Bow Wow). there is something so charming about these pictures, and reading the accompanying text about how long these faithful, damaged friends have been with their keepers is pretty heart-melting, even for me.
i mean, don’t get me wrong – some of them are complete nightmare horrorshows:
this one claims to be only 10 years old. that is one kid who needs to learn how to hug more gently.
but some seem to have made it through pretty well
and some manage to exude personality despite losing most of their features and bits and pieces
and this one lives with bono:
me, i have a rabbit
he has been through a lot with me over the years – moved to three of the five boroughs, carried through the filthy streets of manhattan, toured europe and canada and many different states. his ears have been sewn back on many times, and all his pink bits have faded, his nose has been kissed down to the plastic underneath the thread, but he is my most favorite friend, and i will never grow out of him.
sometimes we nap
sometimes we wrestle
sometimes we fly
and because of the overwhelmingly bear-centric nature of this book (most of which are named “ted” or “teddy”), this is what i propose for the paperback release of the book:
boom!
because my bunny needs some exposure, and he’s still a little pissed off at this impostor:
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