5/10/2023 0 Comments A bear named paddingtonIs situated, a settlement dating back more than a thousand years. Paddington Station-which connects WalesĪnd western England with London-is named for the area of London where it When Michael Bond, a BBC cameraman and part-time writer,Ĭonceived of a story, in the late nineteen-fifties, in which a smallīear from South America arrived in London, he chose Paddington StationĪs the place where the creature would be found, and thence adopted, byĪn English family, the Browns. Three-Quarters-the location at King’s Cross station where students boundįor Hogwarts depart by marching full tilt at a wall-another children’sĪuthor had imbued another major London railway station with perpetual Rowling’s exhilarating invention, twenty years ago, of Platform Nine and In the figure of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond, who died this week, depicted the struggles that a new arrival to any land faces.
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