Thomas Michael Bond, creator of one of the world's most recognizable fictional characters, Paddington Bear, continues to delight his fans in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Italy, Israel, and Japan with the adventures of the inimitable Paddington Bear. His books about an orphan mouse named Thursday, Parsley the Lion and other animals with herb names, a precocious guinea pig Olga da Polga, and J. D. Polson, an armadillo from the United States, further cement this author's hold on the imaginations of children throughout the world. In addition, Bond has written television and radio plays produced in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, and Ceylon. But by far the most successful and recognizable of his stories are those about the bear from "darkest Peru," the bear discovered by the Brown family at Paddington Station, the bear that can...