It's amazing how something as simple as a travelling teddy bear can make so many connections to literature. My Travel Teddy provides a world of opportunities for the creative teacher or parent to make literacy connections. After all, some of the most famous literary works are based on the metaphor of the journey. The Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the earliest known example of literary fiction, dates back to the 26th century BCE. From the 8th century BCE we have the story of the Greek hero Odysseus, or Ulysses from the Roman myths, which uses the journey as a means to inform, instruct and entertain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is from the late 14th century and again the journey is central to the development of the character. Mark Twain, a great traveller himself as well as a riverboat pilot, used travelling on the river to develop the plot in Huckleberry Finn. Perhaps a more direct connection to My Travel Teddy is Goldilocks who travelled to the house of the Three Bears. By having your students take part in My Travel Teddy they will be joining a rich tradition of writing that is motivating and unlimited.

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