Michael Bond (1926-2017) · AuthorAuthor
Michael Bond
1926-2017 · English children's author, creator of Paddington Bear
About Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond (1926-2017) was an English writer born in Newbury, Berkshire. He served in the Royal Air Force and the Army during the Second World War and later worked as a BBC television cameraman, including on the children's programme Blue Peter, while writing in his spare time. A Bear Called Paddington (1958) was the first of many Paddington books; he also created the guinea pig Olga da Polga and the French detective Monsieur Pamplemousse.
Notable works
- A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
- More About Paddington (1959)
- Paddington Helps Out (1960)
- The Tales of Olga da Polga (1971)
- Monsieur Pamplemousse (1983)
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A Bear Called PaddingtonMichael Bond
1958 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
A Bear Called Paddington tells, in eight self-contained chapters, how a small bear from Darkest Peru comes to live with an ordinary London family. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are at Paddington station to meet their daughter Judy, home from school for the holidays, when Mr. Brown notices a bear in a battered, wide-brimmed hat sitting on a suitcase marked Wanted on Voyage.