Michael Bond

Thomas Michael Bond was born in 1926 in Newbury, Berkshire, and grew up in Reading, where his father was a post office manager. He left school at fourteen, during the Second World War, and worked in a solicitor's office and then as an engineer's assistant at the BBC. In 1943 he survived an air raid on Reading. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force but was discharged because of severe air sickness, and then served in the Middlesex Regiment until 1947. After the war he worked as a television cameraman for the BBC, including on the children's program Blue Peter. In 1956 he bought a small toy bear in a London shop as a Christmas present for his wife and named it Paddington after the nearby railway station. The bear inspired A Bear Called Paddington (1958), about a polite bear from 'darkest Peru' who arrives at Paddington Station with a suitcase and a label asking someone to look after him. More than twenty Paddington books followed, as well as stories about a guinea pig, Olga da Polga. He died in London in 2017.

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