Michael Bond

'ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS!' Paddington read on the glossy leaflet showing a large, sleek, silver-grey car. It took him a long time to eat fifteen packets of currants in order to enter the competition. And the Rolls-Royce he'd expected to win turned out to be one of ten thousand consolation prizes -- a bookmark! Then Paddington finds himself taking a...

"A bear on Paddington Station?" said Mrs Brown in amazement. "Donprime;t be silly minus; there canprime;t be." The Browns first met Paddington on a railway station minus; Paddington stationsbquo; in fact. He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmaladesbquo; a suitcase and his hat. The Browns soon found...

Since the Browns found Paddington on a railway platform and took him home to live with them, there has never been a dull moment at number 32 Windsor Gardens. But as he explained to them at the start, "Things happen to me: I'm that sort of a bear." There's the day his basket on wheels mysteriously disappears when he's out shopping in the market....

Książka pouczająca i wciągająca. Bond nie pozostawia cienia wątpliwości co do jednego: nie jesteśmy samotnikami z natury. Rzadko zdajemy sobie sprawę z tego, jak wielką rolę w naszym życiu odgrywają inni ludzie.DAVID McRANEY - autor bestsellera "Ruletka nawyków"Żyjemy w przekonaniu, że podejmujemy autonomiczne decyzje, tymczasem inni ludzie mają...

Olga da Polga has left the pet shop to start a new life with her owners. Her home is now a large and airy hutch and it's not long before she meets Noel the cat, Fangio the hedgehog, and Graham the tortoise. Her garden companions soon discover that Olga loves an audience and from the moment she arrives she tells them stories about her wild and...

„- Niedźwiedź? Na stacji? – spytała pani Brown, spoglądając na męża ze zdumieniem. – Co ty opowiadasz, Henryku! To niemożliwe!”A jednak!Ponad 50 lat temu pojawił się na londyńskim dworcu jako nielegalny imigrant z dalekiego Peru, w kapeluszu, z walizeczką i słojem marmolady (prawie pustym). I właśnie wtedy, na stacji...