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I Am Brown With A Nubbly Coat, Red Button Eyes And A Black Nose, And This Is My True Story.<br> My Name Is Thurston Gustavus Buckridge Iii. This Name Was Given Me By My Clever Friend Felicia Who Is Also Small And Brown, With A Fringe, A Tendency To Lose Crayons, And A Playground Of Crazy Games In Her Head. Felicia Got Me From Her Mother Stella Who Got Me From Her Mother Lavinia, So I Am Actually Very Old. But Felicia Never Minded That. <br> Living With Felicia And Her Toys Tassikia Magintripp Scopittle The Electric Blue Bear, Amaranita Sarsaparilla Gloriosus The Doll And Thunderbox Permusin Peterkar The Wind-Up Mouse Was Going Just Honey-Smooth For Me. Then Things Started To Go Wrong At Home. Very Wrong. And Then, Horror Of Horrors, Felicia S Father Elroy Wanted To Sell Me Off To A Strange Foreign Long-Legged Woman Called Urbanie Jenovefa Balaclava Because He Found Out That I Am Worth A Lot Of Money. So Much Money That You Would Need More Than A Thousand Fingers To Count It! <br> Would You Like To Be Pulled Away From Your Friends And Be Sold Off, Or Sent To A Musty-Fusty Museum, However Old You Are And However Much You Cost? There Was Nothing I Could Do. There Was Nothing Anybody Could Do. Nobody Could Save Me -- Nobody! <br> But. <br> Somebody. <br> Did. <br> Who Was It? <br> What Did They Do? <br> Why Did They Do It? <br> And How, How, How? <br> Read My Story That Pinto Bear Wrote Down <b>Book Reviews</b> It'S Quirky, Cute And Immensely Charming. <i>Rachna Shetty</i> In <i>The Sunday Mid-Day</i> A Great Read. Amrita Bose In <i>Time Out Mumbai</i> Pinto S Narrative Is Through The Eyes Of The Bear As He Moves From One Generation To The Next, Changing Name And Gender, Too. To Felicia S Grandmother, Lavinia, He Is Fatty, While Felicia S Mother Calls The Bear Betty. A Teddy Bear Is A Girl S Best Friend. As Pinto Puts Himself In The Bear S Shoes, What Comes Out Is Sheer Magic. M Venkatesh In <i>Mint</i> The Kids Will Love It. And So Will Adults! Rekha Dixit In <i>The We