MICHAEL BOND: They had everything contained in a little suitcase, and that, too, figured in the Paddington book when I came to write it because I see it in my mind. He told the Reading Museum that Paddington Bear was partially based on an image he remembered from World War II - kids fleeing London, which was being bombed, showing up at the Reading train station. LIMBONG: Michael Bond was born in 1926 in England. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: It said simply, please look after this bear. Brown, who spots a label around the bear's neck. The bear shows up in a train station in London with not really much of a plan. LIMBONG: This is the audiobook of Thomas Michael Bond's first installment, "A Bear Named Paddington" (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I used to live with my Aunt Lucy in Peru, but she had to go into a home for retired bears. (SOUNDBITE OF AUDIOBOOK, "A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON") And NPR's Andrew Limbong has this remembrance.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Paddington Bear arrived in England illegally in need of a home. Well, Michael Bond died yesterday at the age of 91. Usually he's got on a rumpled hat and duffel coat, and he loves marmalade. A couple of years later, Bond turned him into a children's book character, a scruffy little guy who's prone to accidents but who means well. It was 1956, and he bought it for his wife.
The story goes that Michael Bond saw a teddy bear around Christmas in a British department store.
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