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Paddington Here and Now (Paddington)
by: Michael Bond

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780007269402
ISBN: 0007269404
Label: HarperCollins Children's Books
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Children's Books
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: June 02, 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Studio: HarperCollins Children's Books
Sales Rank: 1713

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not loving it.
I bought this on the strength of its nomination for the Roald Dahl prize. I thought it would be funny and up to date modern childrens fiction. It isn't. I was bored. So were my kids. Sorry, just never 'got' Paddington. Maybe my dislike of Marmite has tarnished my views?

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- Marvellously nostalgic
Having loved the Paddington Bear series of books as a child, I was delighted to find this Golden Anniversary story. It's a terrific little book, which I read in one sitting. As usual, Paddington gets caught up in all sorts of scrapes, here involving the police, travel agents and of course, Mr Curry from next door. The Brown family and Mrs Bird are ever present and although the children have grown up a little, the feel of the family is the same as in the earlier books. Bond adopts a lightly satirical approach that will appeal to older readers, gently mocking some of the developments of modern society that Paddington encounters. Read it for the nostalgia and recommend it to children of today; I guarantee that the first sentence will take ... Read More:

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- Here & Now. And then
As a child the Paddington books were a great pleasure to me, managing to be both cosily conventional and yet utterly iconoclastic at the same time. To a child, the experience of watching an ingenue in the adult world is one with which it is very easy to identify. This was the great strength of the series. And now, after all this time, Paddington returns. So has time been kind to our friend form Darkest Peru? Happily, the answer is a very resounding "yes".

The book itself is a solid and heavy hardback and the illustrations are charming and of good quality, as is the jacket. Such presentation gives a good feeling about what lies inside.

As for the book itself, in all honesty the style has changed not one bit. The odd ... Read More:

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