Paddington goes to town

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Author:

Bond, Michael.

ISBN:

9780006753667

Personal Author:

Bond, Michael.

Publication Date:

1998

2008

1968

Publication Information:

London : Collins, 1998.

Physical Description:

144 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: 1968.

Abstract:

Paddington, the bear from darkest Peru, has a knack for smelling out things. He also has an ability to cause havoc, whether it's carol singing, being a waiter or leaving marmalade sandwiches in the path of Mr Curry when he is in the middle of a game of golf.

Subject Term:

Paddington Bear (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.

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Summary

The hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite bear, Paddington, now a major movie star!

Paddington doesn't intentionally turn his friend's wedding into an uproar by getting the wedding ring stuck on his paw. Nor does he mean Mr Curry to slip on his marmalade sandwich in the middle of an important golf shot. But these sort of things just happen to a bear like Paddington!

For more than sixty years, Paddington Bear has touched the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures.

Author Notes

Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England on January 13, 1926. He dropped out of school at the age of 14. During World War II, he served in both the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He sold his first short story in 1945 to the magazine London Opinion. Over the next decade, he had numerous short stories published and radio plays performed. After the war, he joined the BBC Radio and later worked for BBC-TV as a cameraman from 1947 to 1965.

He gave his wife a teddy bear for Christmas in 1956. She it named Paddington after the London train station near their home. His first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958. He became a full-time author in 1965. He wrote more than 25 Paddington books including Paddington Here and Now and Paddington's Finest Hour. He chronicled his life with Paddington in his autobiography, Bears and Forebears.

His other works included A Day by the Sea, Something Nasty in the Kitchen, and Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Carbon Footprint. He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1997 and then a commander of the order in 2015, for services to children's literature. He died after a short illness on June 27, 2017 at the age of 91.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

This revised edition continues the adventures of the cheerful but hapless bear. Paddington takes a driving test, models for a painting class, and mistakenly locks a neighbor in the sauna. The episodic chapters, which are essentially unchanged from the original, are full of humorous misunderstandings. Black-and-white line drawings accompany the undemanding text. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.