About the Book
Joey Robins loved his toy bear. Joey loved the bear so hard and long and pure, so deeply and so truly and so powerfully, that the bear began to grow a heart. Nobody ever would have known about Bear at all, in fact, if Joey hadn't lost him in the hotel beside the haunted shopping mall on Christmas Eve... And so begins a great quest, as the toy bear tries to find his way home. A timeless classic for all seasons.
Mike Resnick writes in his introduction: "Alan Rodgers, who for most of his professional life eschewed short fiction and specialized in outstanding horror novels, had taken the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm and the Rev. Dodson, polished its edges here and there, added a pinch of this and a tablespoon of that, and had produced the almost-perfect successor to these 19th Century fables just as the 20th Century was drawing to a close. Like its predecessors, it will appeal to children - and like the very best of its predecessors, it will appeal even more to adults. The response to the anthology has been quite favorable, and the one story every critic singled out for praise was The Bear Who Found Christmas."