Listening: A Guide for Bears

February 1, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Fellow Baffled Ones, Everybody needs a listener sometimes. It’s grand to be trusted to be the listen-ee, Umm the hearing-er-er, Bother, the umm, friend who will listen. Sometimes a friend won’t even know where to start. You can be a good listener then just by waiting. If you don’t know what to say to them, […]

Frilly: Nervous Explorer, Doubtful Heroine. Coming soon

January 17, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Fellow Baffled Ones, soon your Writer-Bear (that’s Me!) will have more than One book in the wide, bright world. I expect it will be book Number … ummm … some sort of number … tricky things, numbers are … Just a moment please .. [Mawson’s Guardian, whispers: Your “second” book, Mawson. That means its “Number […]

Meet Mawson’s Cousin, Sir Peregrine Flaxton-Pauncefoot

January 12, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Fellow Baffled Ones, Meet my esteemed cousin, Sir Peregrine Flaxton-Pauncefoot (“Do call me Perry, old chaps”). These days Sir Peregrine, umm, Perry, resides in Queensland, Australia, lolling among cushions, accepting cuddles, pondering about dapper bow ties, perusing literature and sampling certain particular types of grape juice. When Perry first arrived in this country, though, he had […]

My Splendid Career As A Bear About Town

January 12, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Dear fellow Baffled Ones, There may have been no ME, once. No Mawson at all, fancy that! Then, one day I found myself sort of There. Yes, There I Was! I was sitting .. hmm .. Where was it now? In a shop, that’s where. I heard a cry well up from deep down in […]

Whoosh Control is Ready to Whirl

December 14, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Fellow Baffled Ones, As every one knows, it takes the bravest of the brave to get an annual wash. Our Scotland the Brave here demonstrates his own procedure. We do not recommend this for fellow Baffled Ones at home. Ready for whoosh-off. Me, Mawson: Wash Control to Scotty: You don’t have to do this. Grubby […]

Mawson Bear’s bright world of friends

November 8, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

‘Jamaica, Bhutan, Armenia, Morocco, Greece, Nepal, Canada, Belgium?’ Umm, Yes. Here they are. ‘Scotland, Japan, Russia, France, Korea, Iceland, Norway?’ Oh, indeed, yes. ‘Brazil, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Georgia, New Zealand?’ Let’s see .. Those too. ‘Kazakstan, Kenya, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Turkey, Finland?’ All of them yes. Keep going, Mawson. ‘Umm Bearistan, Hippoland, […]

Nana Scrappy, by Ryan Cochrane

October 26, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

“Life was good, Nana Scrappy was thinking to herself as she poured another cup of herbal tea.” Mawson’s Guardian Mark says: With her lovely house, her careful routines, and her beautiful garden cared for by Eugene O’Squirrel, Nana’s life is indeed good. She is even going to be awarded for her superb home grown cabbages. […]

It isn’t easy being a Writer Bear

October 14, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Dear fellow Baffled Ones, We bears discovered that to make a book just right, there must be lots of pondering, writing, editing and, shudder, revision. It is all so much that I keep falling into naps. My helpers are not falling into naps at all. They are making sure they have remembered all the things […]

Story Board Conference for ‘She Ran Away From Love’, the next book soon from Me, Mawson

September 14, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Hello fellow Baffled Ones, Director Scotland the Brave called a Conference. All the Pictures to be in my coming book are getting pondered about. Again. All the Words that go with the Pictures are being talked about. Again. This is called (shudder) Revison and (gulp) Editing. Frilly is listening intently because she is the star. I […]

Readers Favourite 5 stars for: It’s a Bright World to Feel Lost In

September 13, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite. It’s A Bright World To Feel Lost In, by Mawson, is a book for children of all ages written by Mawson Bear, who is otherwise known as Mark O’Dwyer. A bear’s world is bright and shiny, and filled with infinite possibility, but sometimes waiting for that special someone […]