Paddington on stage

Format:

Book

Title:

Paddington on stage

Author:

Bradley, Alfred.

ISBN:

9780395251553

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

A collection of seven short plays based on M. Bond's play The adventures of Paddington.

Contents:

The Arrival of Paddington -- Paddington paints a picture -- Paddington has a birthday -- Paddington visits the dentist -- Paddington goes to the launderette -- Paddington goes to the hospital -- Paddington turns detective.

Summary:

Plays featuring the Peruvian bear and his antics in England with the Brown family. Includes hints for props, sets, and costumes.

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Genre:

Added Author:

Bond, Michael. Adventures of Paddington.

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Plays featuring the Peruvian bear and his antics in England with the Brown family. Includes hints for props, sets, and costumes.

Author Notes

Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England on January 13, 1926. He dropped out of school at the age of 14. During World War II, he served in both the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He sold his first short story in 1945 to the magazine London Opinion. Over the next decade, he had numerous short stories published and radio plays performed. After the war, he joined the BBC Radio and later worked for BBC-TV as a cameraman from 1947 to 1965.

He gave his wife a teddy bear for Christmas in 1956. She it named Paddington after the London train station near their home. His first book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published in 1958. He became a full-time author in 1965. He wrote more than 25 Paddington books including Paddington Here and Now and Paddington's Finest Hour. He chronicled his life with Paddington in his autobiography, Bears and Forebears.

His other works included A Day by the Sea, Something Nasty in the Kitchen, and Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Carbon Footprint. He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1997 and then a commander of the order in 2015, for services to children's literature. He died after a short illness on June 27, 2017 at the age of 91.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

The President Emeritus of York University, Toronto, surveys the university's sporadically illustrious 800-year history and doubtful future. Perhaps because he is a Canadian who experienced the seismic tremors of the Sixties indirectly, Ross writes with detached balance, effortlessly blending historical and sociological perspectives and comparing national academic styles--English, American, Canadian, German, even Italian. He ponders the long period of stagnation between 1500 and 1850 when the universities contributed so very little to the intellectual and cultural growth of Europe without venturing an explanation. Will the university survive the egalitarian assaults of the Sixties? Ross recognizes profound and alarming changes: the state has become virtually the ""paymaster"" of the university, and consequently its existence as a semiautonomous corporation of tights and privileges is threatened. Worse, its intrinsic elitism is being questioned by populist and anti-intellectual elements. Ross puts in a gentlemanly plea for the social worth of the ""traditional university devoted to scholarship and excellence"" even while suggesting that the financial squeeze plus leveling sentiments dictate a canny, defensive posture for the near future. Now that the dust has settled, he does hope for a restoration of the ""atmosphere of civility"" which once prevailed in academe and urges the three.""estates""--students, faculty and administrators--to put their own house in order, the better to ""survive"" in the years to come. A moderate's recap of the last decade set in a larger frame. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.