Teddies: A Daniel Kraus Interview and Reveal

I see a lot of middle grade books in a given year. I hear about even more, and because my brain is perforated with little holes, only a certain percentage of this information stays for longer than a day. Then someone shows me a plot synopsis like this:

When Buddy, a blue teddy bear, wakes up at the center of a huge dump, he knows something is gravely wrong. he was supposed to be picked up off the shelf of his toy store and taken home in the loving arms of a child. Instead, he is in a forgotte...