Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 He first appeared in 1958^[1] and was subsequently featured in several books, most recently in 2008, written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Michael Bond, OBE, (born January 13, 1926 in Newbury Berkshire) is an English Children's author. Peggy Fortnum (born Margaret Emily Noel Nuttall-Smith 1919 in Harrow, Middlesex) is an English Illustrator. The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old bush hat, battered suitcase and marmalade sandwiches has become a classic English children's literature icon. Paddington books have been translated into thirty languages across seventy titles and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Over 265 licensees, making thousands of different products across the UK, Europe, USA, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and South Africa all benefit from the universal recognition of Paddington Bear. ^[2]

Paddington is an anthropomorphised bear. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely Human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings natural and supernatural phenomena material states and objects He is always polite (always addressing people as "Mr. ", "Mrs. " and "Miss" and very rarely by first names) and well-meaning (though he inflicts hard stares on those who incur his disapproval), likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. British-style marmalade is a sweet preserve with a bitter tang made from Fruit, Sugar, water and (in some commercial brands a Gelling agent A sandwich is a food item made of two or more slices of Bread with one or more layers of a filling Hot chocolate (also known as hot cocoa, drinking chocolate or just cocoa) is a heated Beverage that typically consists of However, he is known to "try so hard to get things right".

Contents 1 History 1.1 Origin 1.2 The Toy Paddington Bear 2 Storyline 2.1 Characters 3 Books 3.1 * A Bear Called Paddington (1958) 3.2 Other titles 4 Television 4.1 Episode Listing 4.2 Specials 5 Film adaptation 6 Advertising 7 Trivia 8 External links 9 References

History

Origin

Bond based Paddington Bear on a lone teddy bear he noticed on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956, which he bought as a present for his wife. The teddy bear is a stuffed Toy Bear. It is an enduring traditional form of a Stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting children London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. London Paddington station, also known as London Paddington, or just simply Paddington, is a major National Rail and London Underground station Christmas Eve, December 24, is the day before Christmas Day, the celebrated birthday of Jesus. The bear inspired Bond to write a story, and in ten days, he had written the first book. The book was given to his agent, Harvey Unna. A Bear Called Paddington was first published on October 13, 1958, by William Collins & Sons (now Harper Collins). Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation.

The Toy Paddington Bear

The first Paddington Bear was created by Gabrielle Designs in 1972, a small business run by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson, with the prototype made as a Christmas present for her children Joanna and Jeremy Clarkson (English broadcaster and writer). Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960 is an English broadcaster England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Shirley Clarkson dressed Paddington in Wellington boots to help the bear stand upright. The Wellington boot, also known as a wellie, a topboot, a gumboot, or a rubber boot, is a type of Boot based upon Hessian This is the origin of the addition of Wellington boots to Paddington's attire. The earliest bears wore small children's boots manufactured by Dunlop until they could not keep up with production. Gabrielle Designs then produced their own boots with paw prints moulded into the soles.

Storyline

In the first story, Paddington is found at Paddington railway station in London by the Brown family, sitting on his suitcase (bearing the label "WANTED ON VOYAGE") with a note attached to his coat which reads, "Please look after this bear. London Paddington station, also known as London Paddington, or just simply Paddington, is a major National Rail and London Underground station London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Thank you. " Bond has said that his memories of newsreels showing trainloads of child evacuees leaving London during the war, with labels around their necks and their possessions in small suitcases, prompted him to do the same for Paddington. [2]

He has arrived as a stowaway coming from "Darkest Peru", sent by his Aunt Lucy (his only known relative, aside from an unnamed uncle who gave Paddington his hat), who has gone to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima. Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers on a coast overlooking He claims, "I came all the way in a lifeboat, and ate marmalade. Bears like marmalade. " He tells them that no one can understand his Peruvian name, so the Browns decide to call him Paddington after the railway station in which he was found. Bond originally wanted Paddington to have "travelled all the way from darkest Africa", but his agent advised him that there were no bears in darkest Africa, and thus it was amended to darkest Peru, home of the spectacled bear. The Spectacled Bear ( Tremarctos ornatus) also known as the Andean Bear and locally as ukuko, jukumari or ucumari, is the closest ^[3]

They take him home to 32 Windsor Gardens, off Harrow Road between Notting Hill and Maida Vale. The Harrow Road is an ancient route in Greater London which runs from Paddington in a northwesterly direction to Harrow. Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Maida Vale is a residential district in West London between St John's Wood and Kilburn. The stories follow Paddington's adventures and mishaps in England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

When he gets annoyed with someone, he often gives them one of his special "hard stares" (taught to him by Aunt Lucy), which causes the person to become flushed and embarrassed.

Characters

There is a recurring cast of characters, all of whom are in some way implicated by Paddington's misadventures. These include:

• Mr. Brown (Henry): A friendly and often ineffectual city worker.
• Mrs. Brown (Mary): Mr. Brown's equally friendly wife.
• Jonathan and Judy: The energetic and friendly Brown children. It is never established if one is older than the other, leading to the perception that they are twins.
• Mrs. Bird: The Browns' stern, but ultimately friendly, housekeeper.
• Mr. Gruber: Owner of an antique shop on the Portobello Road, with whom Paddington has his elevenses every day. In the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth realms, elevenses is a Snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning
• Mr. Curry: The Browns' mean and bad-tempered next-door neighbour, who addresses Paddington simply as "Bear!". He often invites himself to many of the Browns special occasions (though just to sample the snacks).
• Lucy Bear: Paddington's aunt from South America.

Books

A Bear Called Paddington was first published in 1958 and was followed by ten more books. In order of publication, the titles are:^[4]

* A Bear Called Paddington (1958)

Featured Stories:

• • Please Look After This Bear
  • A Bear In Hot Water
  • Paddington Goes Underground
  • A Shopping Expedition
  • Paddington and "The Old Master"
  • A Visit To The Theatre

Other titles

• More About Paddington (1959)
• Paddington Helps Out (1960)

• Paddington Abroad (1961)

Featured Stories:

• • Paddington Saves The Day: The Browns car break down on holiday in France. Mr. Brown decides they should have a picnic meal whilst he repairs it, with a competition for the best dish of the day. Paddington's dish is highly praised, but the Browns are less than happy when they discover what was in it.

• Paddington at Large (1962)
• Paddington Marches On (1964)
• Paddington at Work (1966)
• Paddington Goes to Town (1968)
• Paddington Takes the Air (1970)
• Paddington on Top (1974)
• Paddington Takes the Test (1979)
• Paddington Rules the Waves (2008) A £1 World Book Day Book ^[5]
• Paddington Here and Now (June 2008)^[6]

Author Michael Bond was also a BBC TV cameraman who worked on the popular children's television programme Blue Peter. Blue Peter is a BBC Television programme for children It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the After this was revealed in 1965, a special Paddington story — in which he got mixed up in the programme itself — appeared annually in the Blue Peter Annuals for many years.

They were collected in the novel-length Paddington's Blue Peter Story Book in 1973.

Featured Stories:

• • Paddington Goes Halves: Paddington enters a craft competition for Blue Peter. He is allowed to use Mr. Curry's guest room as his studio, on condition that he gives Mr. Curry half his winnings. Paddington wins a prize, but it isn't what Mr. Curry expected.
  • Paddington is put in charge of looking after Joey, the Blue Peter parrot, whilst the team are away.
  • Paddington Weighs in: Paddington sees an item on Blue Peter, and thinks that the team are in trouble. It turns out they were only trying out the fitness machines in a new health hostel.

A second book based around Blue Peter is Paddington on Screen.

Many other picture books and other publications have since featured Paddington.

Television

The BBC television series Paddington, produced by Michael Bond and London-based animation company FilmFair, was first broadcast in 1975. This series had an extremely distinctive appearance: Paddington was a stop-motion puppet moving in a three dimensional space in front of two-dimensional backgrounds (which were frequently sparse black-and-white line drawings), while all other characters were 2D drawings — in one scene, a character hands Paddington a jar of marmalade that becomes 3D when Paddington touches it. Animator Ivor Wood also worked on The Magic Roundabout and Postman Pat. Ivor Aaron Wood Sr Jr ( 4 May 1932 &mdash 13 October 2004) was an English Stop-motion Animator who is best The Magic Roundabout (Known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a children's television programme created in Postman Pat is a British Stop-motion animated Children's television series produced by Woodland Animations. The series was narrated by Michael Hordern. Sir Michael Murray Hordern ( 3 October 1911 &ndash 2 May 1995) was an English Actor, knighted in 1983 for his services In the United States, episodes aired on PBS, on Nickelodeon as a segment on the program Pinwheel and on USA Network as a segment on the program Calliope in the 1980s, as well as in between preschool programming on the Disney Channel throughout the 1990s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Nickelodeon (commonly referred to as Nick) is an American Cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel Pinwheel is a children's Television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1979 to 1990. USA Network (commonly referred to as USA) is an American Cable television channel with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005 In Greek mythology, Calliope ("beautiful-voiced" also spelled Kaliope or Kalliope, in Greek, Καλλιόπη For the Disney Channel in other countries see Disney Channel around the world. The series also aired on HBO in between features, usually when they were airing children's programs. The series won a silver medal at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1979 — the first British animated series to do so.

A second television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera, debuted in 1989 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. This series was traditional two-dimensional animation and featured veteran voice actor Charles Adler as Paddington and Tim Curry as Mr. Charles Adler may refer to Charles Adler (broadcaster (born 1954 Canadian broadcaster Charles Adler (voice actor (born 1957 American Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946 is an English Actor, Singer, Voice actor, and Composer, as well as having a career as a Curry. The character of an American boy named David, Jonathan and Judy Brown's cousin who arrived in London on the same day as Paddington, was added to the stories in the 1989 cartoon.

The most recent series, produced by Cinar Films, was first broadcast in 1997 and consisted of traditional two-dimensional colour animation.

Episode Listing

Specials

• Paddington Goes To The Movies (1980)

A 21-minute special in which Paddington goes to the movies. On leaving, in the street outside complete with umbrella, he performs Gene Kelly's famous dance routine from Singin' in the Rain. Eugene Curran “Gene” Kelly ( August 23, &ndash February 2,) was an American Dancer, Actor, Singer, director

• Paddington’s Birthday Bonanza (1986)

A 24-minute special in which Paddington finds himself in trouble as he becomes a one-man band to raise money to buy Mr Brown's birthday present. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan. . .

Film adaptation

In September 2007, Warner Bros. and producer David Heyman announced a live action film adaptation of Paddington Bear. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and David Heyman is a British Film producer born in London England in 1961 Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a Feature film. Hamish McColl, who penned Mr Bean's Holiday, will write the script. Hamish McColl (born 1962 is a British comedian and actor With Sean Foley, he forms the double act The Right Size. Mr Bean's Holiday (also known as Bean 2, Bean on Holiday and French Bean) is a Comedy film starring The film will not be an adaptation of an existing story, but "will draw inspiration from the whole series" and will feature a computer generated Paddington Bear interacting with a live-action environment. The term computer-generated most often refers to a sound or visual that has been created in whole or in part with the aid of Computer software. ^[7]

Advertising

Paddington Bear features in the Marmite UK TV advertisement (broadcast on 13 September 2007) ^[8], in which he tries a marmite and cheese sandwich instead of his traditional marmalade sandwich. Marmite (/ˈmɑːmaɪt/ is the name given to two similar food spreads a British version produced in the United Kingdom and South Africa and the other in New Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The UK TV campaign includes the re-broadcast of the 1975 stop-motion animation television series. ^[9]

Trivia

• Paddington Bear's Gold Record, an album of fifteen songs based on incidents in the Paddington books, was released in 1984. Paddington Bear's Gold Record is a musical recording released in 1984 by Audiotrax Records
• Street traders on the Peruvian shores of Lake Titicaca now offer tourists home-made finger puppets of Paddington. Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Bolivia and Peru. There is also a stall at Paddington station selling Paddington Bear merchandise. London Paddington station, also known as London Paddington, or just simply Paddington, is a major National Rail and London Underground station
• Paddington was featured on the Royal Mail 1st class stamp in the Animal Tales series released on January 10, 2006, and had previously been featured on one of the 1st class Greetings Messages stamps, released February 1 1994. Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
• In 2000, David Goodman Olney was a winner on the American version of the TV program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for correctly answering the million-dollar question that Paddington Bear came from Peru. In the United States, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (also known simply as Millionaire) is a Television Game show which
• In 1988, Australian politician Mick Young resigned from Parliament after being caught importing a Paddington Bear without paying duty. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Michael Jerome Young ( 9 October 1936 – 8 April 1996) was an Australian politician This became known locally as the "Paddington Bear Affair".
• In December 2007, the author said he would publish a new book, titled Paddington Here and Now. It was published in June 2008. It features the bear being interviewed by the British Police about his immigration status, following his initial entry into the country as a stowaway and regarding his lack of identity documents^[10].

External links

• Paddington Bear - The Official Website
• Paddington at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Bond Biography
• wiseGEEK - Who Is Paddington Bear?

References

Simon Sheridan's book The A to Z of Classic Children's Television (Reynolds & Hearn books, 2004, reprinted 2007) ISBN 1-903111-27-7 contains an informative chapter on the 1970s TV series of Paddington

1. ^ How It All Started
2. ^ Paddington Bear
3. ^ Michael Bond and R.W. Alley’s Paddington Bear
4. ^ The Books
5. ^ World Book and Copyright Day
6. ^ BBC NEWS | England | London | Paddington Bear's birthday book
7. ^ Adam Dawtrey. Paddington is an area of the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO "'WB bears down on 'Paddington' film", Variety, 2007-09-13. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Retrieved on 2007-09-14. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.  
8. ^ Paddington Stars in a New Series of Marmite Ads
9. ^ Sweney, Mark (2007-09-12). Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Paddington gets taste for Marmite. MediaGuardian. co. uk. Retrieved on 2007-09-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
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