Hugs by Alice Mclerran

Hugs by Alice Mclerran

Share some love and give a hug with Teddy Bear Tim. Teddy Bear Tim LOVES hugs He loves hugs so much that he wants to share all of his favorite kinds of hugs with you. Whether it's a happy hug, a sad hug, a fast hug, or a bear hug, Tim has three simple steps to follow to make sure you're giving the very best hug you can give. Inspired by Tim Harris's love for giving big bear hugs and his restaurant that offered up hugs on the menu, this charming how-to guide gives readers so many reasons to give someone a big hug

Alice McLerran was an Army brat and moved every year or so -- from Hawaii to Germany, from New York to Ecuador.

She still leads a gypsy life, traveling the world with her physicist husband and dividing time between their home in New York and their dacha in the mountains of Oregon. She's happy to visit schools anywhere! The McLerran cat, Shuwa, prefers to stay home.

Children often ask me how I started being a writer, and I tell them: by loving stories. My mother made up stories at bedtime, and my grandmother was a story-teller as well. I always read, and read, and read. I think most writers do. One bit of luck, I think, was that from the first I wrote for others. Over the years I made countless poems and little books as gifts. When you write for real readers, of course you want to do your best.