Meet Paddington – a small bear from Darkest Peru with a big heart and a suitcase full of marmalade. This joyful Folio of Michael Bond’s classic features Peggy Fortnum’s original illustrations in colour, a cheerful yellow cloth binding and a Paddington-blue slipcase trimmed with pawprints. A timeless tale, lovingly reimagined for every bookshelf.
Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum
Introduced By Michael Morpurgo
At a busy railway station in London, a little Peruvian bear waits to be discovered, with a tag around his neck reading ‘Please look after this bear.’ Thankfully, the kindly Brown family brings him home and adopts him into their family. So begins the quintessential British classic A Bear Called Paddington.
This is the very first Paddington Bear book, filled with adventures as sweet and sticky as marmalade sandwiches and illustrated with Peggy Fortnum’s iconic drawings. Housed in a blue slipcase that matches Paddington’s signature duffel coat, the book is bound in cheerful yellow cloth, with orange endpapers decorated with a jar of marmalade. A charming new introduction by Michael Morpurgo recounts the occasion when he ate blackberry crumble with Paddington creator Michael Bond, Mrs Bond and their four guinea pig friends.
