This is the story of a teddy bear who falls out of a child’s bed one night. Cleverly, the numbers one to ten are woven into the rhyming text, so we watch as Ted and three mice drive around in four toy cars, look out at five stars, have tea with six dolls and take a trip using eight balloons. But as the night goes on, Ted wants to go back to bed.
Working together, the toys and mice build a staircase out of ten wooden bricks. Ted climbs up but the bricks collapse beneath him, leaving him on the floor as everyone else scurries away. The story ends happily with the child waking up and pulling Ted back into bed.
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