Books with author Patricia Coombs

The other toys in The Lost Playground were store toys, and they were all very proud of their stuffing--forever arguing over which is best--sawdust or cotton or feathers or foam rubber. But the odd looking one named Mostly Frederick Sometimes Sam never took part in the arguments--for he was not like the others. Mostly had not been bought at a store. He had been made at home for a little girl named Jane, and his stuffing was old socks and scraps of cloth and tatered underwear. That was one reason the other toys snubbed him and that was why he wanted so much to get back to Jane. It will be love at first sight for petend age readers when they meet Mostly, the lovable little stuffed animal who is goaded into being just like everyone else, but staunchly goes on just being himself.