Item Description: |
Originally published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons and Co. Ltd in 1970. The further adventures of Paddington as he visits the dentist, decides to become a detective, and tries to repair the neighbor's trousers. |
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Physical Description: |
175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
ISBN: |
0062312383 9780062312389 |
Author Notes: |
He gave his wife a teddy bear for Christmas in 1956. She it named Paddington after the London train station near their home. His first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958. He became a full-time author in 1965. He wrote more than 25 Paddington books including Paddington Here and Now and Paddington's Finest Hour. He chronicled his life with Paddington in his autobiography, Bears and Forebears. His other works included A Day by the Sea, Something Nasty in the Kitchen, and Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Carbon Footprint. He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1997 and then a commander of the order in 2015, for services to children's literature. He died after a short illness on June 27, 2017 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) |