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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Frilly still getting Wardrobed and Made Up

September 8, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Fellow Baffled Ones, Wardrobe still aren’t finished getting Frilly ready. They looked at hats. They looked at clothes. They looked at bags. They looked at Props. And they’re still keeping her there. It seems you need the patience of a bear to be a star in photos. Here she is with Tartan Scarf and Bonnet, […]

About Mawson Bear’s Blob

August 16, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

From here, Fellow Baffled Ones, you can go to all the Toasts in my Blob. (Whispered conference with my friends.) Errr, no, it seems that they are the POSTS in my BLOG. We hope you enjoy them with honey. (Whispered conference.) And also, without honey, if you have no honey today. Me, Mawson, Writer-Bear and my Baffled […]

Suitable Gifts for Writer-Bears

July 22, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Fellow Baffled Ones of this befuddled but bright world, It’s Me, Mawson, writer-bear of It’s A Bright World To Feel Lost In. You may be baffled about what to give a writer (or bear) for a gift. Here’s Me and I happen to have some presents. What could they be? Oh this is grand. A pen! Just the […]