Stephanie Innes coauthored A Bear in War and Bear on the Homefront using her great-aunt Aileen Rogers’ wartime journal, photographs, hundreds of letters, and a stuffed bear named Teddy. A beloved true story that introduces young readers to war gently, A Bear in War was an OLA Silver Birch Express Honour Book and a Children’s Literature Roundtalbes of Canada Information Book Award finalist. Stephanie lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is the senior medical reporter for the Arizona Daily Star.
During World War One, a young girl slips her teddy bear into a care package for her father, a medic posted to the trenches of France. Although her father dies in the battle of Passchendaele, his belongings are shipped back to his family, along with the toy bear, which today sits in the Canadian War ...
During World War II, nurse Aileen Rogers and her stuffed bear, Teddy, greet English "guest children" sent overseas for safety. Teddy befriends homesick, young William and his sister Grace, sharing the experience of the cross-country train ride and five years on a host family's farm. Based on real e...
