Jun 28 2017
Michael Bond, the genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died at his home in London on Tuesday. He was 91.
In a 2014 interview with the The Guardian, Mr. Bond said that the character had partly been inspired by his memories of child evacuees passing through Reading from London. “They all had a label round their neck with their name and address on and a little case or package containing all their treasured possessions."
Mr. Bond also wrote books about Olga da Polga, a guinea pig, and a mouse called Thursday, and for adult readers about Monsieur Pamplemousse, a culinary detective with a dog named Pommes Frites.
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