Mawson Bear and his Furry Friends

Mawson is a big hearted, soul searching Writer-Bear.  His books are stuffed with happiness for all ages, from grandchildren to grandparents.  #mawsonbear #hug #authorsoftiktok  #picturebook  #reading  #bigheart #soulsearching #childrensbook #booktok #allages

Gavin and Lionel will leave Big Bedroom for the first time in their lives. That is, if Lionel can make it down the stairs and out of the house. They get their maps and equipment in order ready to explore north western Australia

#adventure #quest #australia

Mawson is a big hearted, soul searching Writer-Bear.  His books are stuffed with happiness for all ages, from grandchildren to grandparents. Relax a while with Mawson and his friends in their cosy, whimsical world. Refresh your soul in the tranquility of innocent hours and simple joys. 

In his quiet and comforting way, Mawson helps you to feel, deep down in your inner-most stuffing, that everything, in the end, is all right.

In the first Nana Scrappy Book we met Nana, her son Harold, her gardener Eugene O'Squirrel and Sparfield the huge Guineapig as they joined forces to rescue Nana's grand-dog Barry who had run away and gone missing.

Now Ryan Cochane brings us another delightful Nana Scrappy story.  It's beautifully illustrated by Diana Dementeva. Nana's household is full of commotion from Christmas preparations. But mischievous Mortimer Mouse is on the loose. 

Nana's gardener, Eugene O'Squirrel, must track the mouse down before he ruins Christmas. During the kerfuffle they come across a treasure map.  Naturally, young grand-dog Barry and his bunny friend Bean want to investigate. What will it all lead to? Could it possibly be the mischievous Mortimer who stumbles on the secret of Christmas?

If you like dogs, squirrels, guinea pigs, visits to Nana, Christmas stories, and treasure maps you will enjoy reading this tale. It's entirely suitable for Grand Paw-rents to read aloud to grand dawgs and young dawgs to read to each other. 

#xmas #christmasstory #childrensbooks #giftideas

Review by Mark and Mawson.

A book to help kids who have leukemia and their Grownups. They can read the book together and enjoy the pictures and talk about the treatment for leukemia.

On reading Chubby's Tale this grownup learned things about leukemia treatment he didn't know. It's a grand book for children who have this sickness (and their bears). 

It's also very helpful for the Grownups who want to know more about it because the explanations given to Chubby by Dr Doll are so clear and understandable. Grownups and children can talk about it together as they read.

The Story: Chubby has a good job sitting on a shelf in the La La Land Toy Store waiting for someone to take him home. But he doesn't feel well.

Urged by his shelf neighbour, Superhero, he sets off to find help. Guardian Angel in the Christmas Department knows what Chubby has to do: he must see a Doctor.  La La Land is a big store and Chubby has a long way to go. The yellow Beetle car takes him all the way. 

Dr Doll gets right to work. Chubby learns about exams and blood tests and scientists and pharmacists and cancer cells. It's not good news! On the other hand, Dr Doll knows the right kind of treatment. She explains all about it with useful diagrams.

We follow Chubby's brave journey. The chemotherapy makes some of his hair fall out. Oh dear, who will take home from the shop a teddy with bald patches?  How does it all work out?  Well, that's all in this book which I recommend highly.

Mawson likes to compose little hums (between naps on his cushion). This Humm is a little humm about holding on to your friends when you're feeling full of bothers and worries.

Do you or your child need help understanding cancer or coping with treatment? You need a bear hug boost! The strong, positive and trustworthy message in this book—coming from teddy bears you'll want to hug!—is ideal for kids that are going through cancer treatment.
Carola Schmidt is an award-winning author of children's cancer books, and uses her experience as a pediatric oncology pharmacist to write scientific books for Springer Nature. You can usually find her on Twitter @_CarolaSchmidt.
Mark O'Dwyer is the Guardian of Scotty and Little Teddy and a photographer and writer from Perth, Western Australia. He is the creator of the Mawson Bear book series.

Welcome back to Mawson Bear and his Furry Friends. This little episode is a Humm or poem and its read by Mark, guardian and helper of Mawson Bear. Its only a little humm, so lean back and enjoy. #hugs #home #feelinglost #growingup #cominghome #returninghome #nostalgia

I talk about the organisation Free the Bears, and its founder Mary Hutton, and do a few quick quotes from the book Free the Bears by Mary Hutton and Julie Miller

This song, of course, starred the illustrious Snoopy taking on 'The Red Baron’.

Here we do a version with our own dare devil aviators,
BeeBear plays Snoopy's role and our Flyer Bear

has volunteered to be the Ace Baron.

Ready to Humm? And ..

'The news came out in the First World War, 

The Ace Baron Bear was flying once more'.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mawsonbear.blog/2021/05/02/beebear-vs-the-ace-baron/

Dreamy Days and Random Naps is a little book by Mawson, the writer-bear. The book is all about having big dreams and napping. One of the bears in the book demonstrating big day dreams and ambitions is Scotland The Brave. This podcast is about him. You can see more at mawsonbear dot blog

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mawsonbear.blog/2020/12/18/meet-the-bears-in-dreamy-days-and-random-naps-scotland-the-brave/

When you feel lost, alone and left behind, can you ever find again the brightness in your world? Everyone wants to be cherished by their special someone. But how do you go on when, for whatever reason, they are no longer with you. Mawson explores that almost inexpressible feeling of Lost-ness. A gentle little story about love, loss, and renewal of hope, told simply with pictures of teddy bears.

#brightworld #feelinglost #findingloveagain  #mawsonbear #lost #leftbehind #lonely #brightworld #itsabrightworld @odysseybooks

Some of the many bears sitting about Mawson Bear's House.

To see more visit www.mawsonbear.blog

The road goes on and on and on across a faraway dry land in the north of Western Australia

Lionel the little plush lion feels like a king of the road, or at least of the dashboard, as they overtake a road train

In the book, Scotty is a little bear who gets a bad sickness called cancer. He's am worried and often scared because cancer is scary. Scotty keeps trying hard  to be brave

The book is to help kids feel much more brave, like Scotty, when they are getting treatment. Where can you  find When A Brave Bear Fights Cancer? You can find it on line at Amazon where it is also free to read on Kindle Unlimited. Look for the brave little bear wearing trews on the cover.