Sooty and the Balloons
Harry and Sooty Concessions Ltd. Corbett
Hardcover
(Purnell, Jan. 1, 1969)
Pop-up book published in London in 1969. Sooty is a British glove puppet bear and TV character in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The children's television show which bears his name has continued in various forms since the 1950s and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the longest-running children's programme in the UK. He was 60 years old on 19 July 2008.