History Literature / OttoAutobiographyOfATeddyBear

%% * {{Living Toy|s}}: Otto is one, though humans don't seem to perceive him as such.

* ChekhovsGun: When playing with Otto, David and Oskar inadvertantly spill the content of an inkwell on his face, leaving a permanent stain on it. Years later, Oskar recognizes Otto in the antique shop's storefront, thanks to the ink stain.

* {{Living Toy|s}}: Otto is one, though humans don't seem to perceive him as such.

* {{Living Toy|s}}: Otto is one.

It follows the life of Otto, a Toys/{{teddy bear}} who was offered to a Jewish German little boy named David just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He had a happy life when David played with him along with his non-Jewish friend Oskar. Then came the war... Otto went through many a misfortune of the war after being separated from David and Oskar, witnessing some of its horrors and woes along the way... until he could finally have a happy ending.

* TakingTheBullet: The black G.I. who finds Otto in the rubble of the German town gets shot in the chest. The bullet goes through Otto, and Otto's stuffing reduces the bullet's velocity, saving the soldier's life. Otto suffers in the process, making it closer to the trope than just PocketProtector.

''Otto: Autobiography of a Teddy Bear'' (''Otto: Autobiographie d'un ours en peluche'' in French) is a [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book|s}} written and illustrated by Creator/TomiUngerer, a French artist and children's books author from Alsace. It was initially published in German and in French in 1999.

''Otto: Autobiography of a Teddy Bear'' (''Otto: Autobiographie d'un ours en peluche'' in French) is a [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] {{picture book|s}} written and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, a French artist and children's books author from Alsace. It was initially published in German and in French in 1999.

It follows the life of Otto, a Toys/{{teddy bear}} who was offered to a Jewish German little boy named David just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He had a happy life when David played with him along with his non-Jewish friend Oskar. Then came the war. Otto then went through many a misfortune of the war after being separated from David and Oskar, witnessing some of its horrors and woes along the way... until he could finally have a happy ending.

* BittersweetEnding: Otto is reunited with David and Oskar at the end many years after the war, but David's family has perished in the [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Death Camps]], Oskar's father has been killed on the front and Oskar's mother has perished during an air raid.

* KidsAreCruel: In the USA, Otto gets snatched away from his new owner by a bunch of kids and gets mistreated by them, then gets thrown in a trash can.