Michael says: “I think the world is in a bit of mess at the moment.
The first story in his latest Paddington book homes in on the way the bear is treated with suspicion.
I feel sorry for anyone who is homeless or countryless.” “It’s a very big problem now,” he admits of the parallel refugee situation today. “They very sadly used to sit by the fire and cry,” he recalls. Michael recalls Jewish refugees at Reading station – in fact, his parents took in two boys, aged around nine and 10. The idea of Paddington being abandoned on a railway platform with nothing but a label asking for someone to look after him “please”, was sown in that imagination during his wartime teenage years. In those days Boots had a lending library and my mother used to go down and get six or seven books. He says: “Books were part of the furniture. He would play cricket with his civil servant dad, “a gentleman who wore a hat like Paddington everywhere so he could doff it – he didn’t even take it off if we paddled in the sea”.īut his mum was an avid reader.
The ten titles in this collection arePaddingtonPaddington at the Rainbow's EndPaddington in the GardenPaddington Goes to HospitalPaddington Goes for GoldPaddington at the CircusPaddington and the Grand TourPaddington and the Christmas SurprisePaddington at the CarnivalPaddington King of the CastleAge 3+ Paperback 0 0 add-to-cart rrp_info:£69.90 productId:59068 bic_code:YD, YFA YD, YFA £69.90 Illus.Michael’s undiminishing imagination was fostered as a boy growing up in Reading. Everything is a new adventure for Paddington this set of ten books tells of his escapades in the garden and on sports day, at the carnival, the circus and Christmastime and we join the young bear as he goes to hospital, learns the colours of the rainbow and counts seagulls at the seaside. and so begins the story of the little stowaway bear from Darkest Peru. 515668 Paddington Bear Collection - 10 books 19.99 19.99 GBP InStock /Children's & Education /Children's & Education/Shop by Age/3-5 years /Children's & Education/Highlights/Children's Classics /Children's & Education/Highlights/Children's Collections /Children's & Education/Shop by Age /Postscript collections /Email Landing Pages/New Children's titles /Back by popular demand /Children's & Education/Categories/Fiction /Email Landing Pages/Gift Ideas /Email Landing Pages/Gift Ideas/Categories/Children's Gift Books /Email Landing Pages/Gift Ideas/Categories/Gifts Under £20 /Email Landing Pages/A History of Children's Books /Bestsellers ‘Mr and Mrs Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform’.
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