Children from Waukegan, and as far away as Chicago, used words like “cool,” “love,” “huge,” “pretty,” and “amazing” to describe Xonita, the world’s largest teddy bear, measuring 63 feet from head to paw and weighing four tons.
Parents matched their offspring’s enthusiasm.
“I love it,” third-grader Sophia Blaszczyk of Chicago said. “I have my own,” she added, hugging a children’s version of Xonita. It is 17 inches long and weighs less than a pound.
“It’s huge,” said Sophia’s mother Agatha. “It’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. We had to see it.”
“It’s cool,” said Silas Cornelius, a fourth grader at Andrew Cooke Magnet Elementary School in Waukegan. “It’s so big.”
“It’s simply magnificent,” added Silas’ mother, Crystal. “We had to come here and see it.”
“I’ve never seen such a big teddy bear,” Sophia Salinas, a fifth grader from Waukegan, said.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” added Sophia’s mother, Yasminda. “This is the world’s biggest bear, and it comes from Mexico,” she added, referring to the country of her parents’ birth.
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