What do you mean they're not alive?

As a child, the highlight of any visit to the dentist was a chance to read The Care And Feeding Of Stuffed Animals, by Glen Knape, a book that had somehow wormed its way into the collection of magazines, picture books, and dental pamphlets in the waiting room.  This book had everything you needed to know to properly care for your stuffed animals, but I think that my favorite part was always the explanation for how you helped a stuffed animal adjust to its new home via the magic of the Huggle.  Now what, you may ask, is a Huggle?  If I remember correctly, it is when you create a circle of stuffed animals around the new one in order to introduce it to its new family.  I can attest that it is a practice that works and leads to a smooth transition from store to home.  (What can I say?  I was a special child :).)  This book will always have a place in my heart, and made it almost worth it to go to the dentist.  Someday I'll have to find myself a copy for the coffee table that I don't have.  (What?  Did you expect it to sit on a shelf?  No sir, that's not where the book belongs, for there are no shelves in the dentist's office.)

(And on a totally unrelated note, why did it seem like all waiting rooms had to have at least one of those children's Bible stories books in them?)