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Kids create custom plush tigers at Alton's Hayner Library workshop
Kids created their own plush toys on Saturday at the Hayner Public Library at the Alton Square Mall, where a Stuffed Animal Workshop allowed them to customize and take home their own cuddly tigers.
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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy
In 1909, wealthy widow Susie W. Allgood marketed a plush marsupial inspired by President William Howard Taft. But children thought the toy looked "too much like a rat," and it sold poorly ...