Bond stated in December 2007 that he did not plan to continue the adventures of Paddington Bear in further volumes. Michael Bond, creator of the beloved Paddington Bear books, died Tuesday at 91. 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. By 1967, Bond was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. The Brown family found the bear at Paddington Station, and adopted him, naming the bear after the station. His first book was A Bear Called Paddington. 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. Michael Bond was an English author best known as the creator and author of the wildly popular Paddington Bear. 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. Michael Bond, OBE, (born in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books.īond began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to the magazine London Opinion.
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