'I've always had great respect for Paddington. He is a British institution.' Stephen Fry

Wherein Paddington ushes at a wedding, jams up a golf match, upsets a psychiatrist, effects an accidental cure, serves baked clastic.... A few of the escapades fall flat, and the head man/head man, head-shrinker/hat stretcher contretemps that sends Paddington to the psychiatrist may be over the heads of many kids - but the bear double-talking the doctor is side-splitting, and others are almost as funny. It's all a matter of how you rate Paddington, who's lost none of his guilelessness in the sketches although his powers of obfuscation are sometimes strained in the stories. (Kirkus Reviews)

'Michael Bond's accident-prone bear...has become one of the most enduring of children's characters.'

"Paddington has joined Pooh as one of the great bears of English children's literature"

Stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children all over the world for fifty years.

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.

Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 1997 he was awarded the OBE for his services to children's literature.