

A Bear Called Paddington
Author: Michael Bond
Series: Paddington
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Unabridged: 2 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03/29/2005
Author: Michael Bond
Series: Paddington
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Unabridged: 2 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03/29/2005
Michael Bond began chronicling Paddington’s adventures in his first book, A Bear Called Paddington, published in 1958. Fortunately, bears don’t need much encouragement, and Paddington has since filled the pages of twelve further novels, a variety of picture books, and many other projects written for the young at heart.
Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham, and Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights, where he first met Hugh Laurie. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, most notably, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, QI, and House. Major film roles include Peter in Peter's Friends (1990) and Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997); in the realm of television, his critically acclaimed The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive won an Emmy. He is the author of the best selling novels The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History, and Revenge: A Novel, as well as the highly acclaimed autobiography Moab Is My Washpot and, in 2005, a well-received guide to writing poetry, The Ode Less Travelled.
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Michael Bond's 1958 story introduces us to the wonderful bear from Darkest Peru. The adventures of Paddington Bear always put a smile on my face & can lighten the darkest of moods. Michael Bond establishes characters in this first book that stay with Paddington throughout all the stories that follow......more
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