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About Author

Michael Bond, OBE, (born in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books. Bond began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion. In 1958, after producing a number of plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman (where he worked filming Blue Peter for a time), his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published. This was the start of Bond's most famous series of books, telling tales of a bear from "Darkest Peru", whose Aunt Lucy sends him to England, carrying a jar of marmalade. The Brown family found the bear at Paddington Station, and adopted him, naming the bear after the station. By 1967, Bond was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. Paddington's adventures have been published in nearly twenty countries, and has inspired pop bands, race horses, plays, hot air balloons and a TV series. Bond stated in December 2007 that he did not plan to continue the adventures of Paddington Bear in further volumes.

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Books in this Series

Paddington takes the air

Michael Bond

3.7 (3)

The further adventures of Paddington as he visits the dentist, decides to become a detective, and tries to repair the neighbor's trousers.

Judy's Journey

Lois Lenski

0.0 (0)

Jim Drummond and his family want a piece of land of their very own and the security that comes with it. Travelling as migrant farm workers brings daughter Judy in contact with lots of people of different walks of life, color, and beliefs.

When we were very young

A. A. Milne

4.3 (10)

109

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe

Bette Greene

4.0 (1)

Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, sports, and almost everything else doesn't bother Beth at first. Then she realizes that Philip might be best because she's letting him beat her. Beth knows that she deserves to be Number One--and she's going to prove it! This funny, universal story of a girl learning that she matters in the world has delighted readers for over twenty years.

Paddington Helps Out (Paddington)

Michael Bond

4.0 (5)

Happy Little Family

Rebecca Caudill

3.8 (4)

Five adventures in Bonny's busy four-year-old life with her three sisters and brothers in the days of copper-toed shoes.

Fat men from space

Daniel Manus Pinkwater

0.0 (0)

Through his radio tooth, William learns of an invasion by spacemen who are taking all of earth's supply of junk food.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg, Jill Clayburgh

4.2 (30)

254

Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

Now we are six

A. A. Milne

4.5 (6)

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

The stonewalkers

Vivien Alcock

0.0 (0)