Ray Brooks, who provided the voice-over for a cartoon television series
Rupert-who wears yellow plaid pants and a matching scarf, and gets onĪbominably well with his parents-to be unforgivably cloying. Had his partisans, though many readers over the decades have found Rupert Bear, originally a comic-strip character whoĭébuted in the Daily Express newspaper, in the nineteen-twenties, has
Honey and his self-composed ditties, almost a hundred years ago, and has Winnie-the-Pooh arrived in the national consciousness, with his pots of The British seem particularly susceptible to fictionalized bears. Who died this week at the age of ninety-one. The name now belongs, ofĬourse, to Paddington Bear, the enduring and beloved creation of Bond, Ruled by a now-forgotten chief named Padda. Most likely is of Anglo-Saxon origin, referring to a geographical area Precise etymology of the place name Paddington is obscure, though it Is 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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