Michael Bond

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Michael Bond, OBE, (born January 13, 1926) is a British children's author. He is the creator of Paddington Bear and has written about the adventures of a guinea pig named Olga da Polga. Bond also writes culinary mystery stories for adults featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes Frites.

Born in Newbury, Berkshire, Bond was educated at Presentation College, a Catholic school in Reading. During World War II he served in both the Royal Air Force and the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army.

He began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story to a magazine London Opinion. In 1958, after producing a number of plays and short stories and while working as a BBC television cameraman, his first book A Bear Called Paddington was published. By 1967 he was able to give up his BBC job to work full-time as a writer. Paddington's adventures have been published in nearly twenty countries.

In 1997 Bond was awarded the OBE.

[edit] Bibliographics

• 1958 A Bear Called Paddington ISBN 0-618-15071-4
• 1959 More About Paddington
• 1960 Paddington Helps Out
• 1971 Michael Bond's Book of Bears
• 1972 The Day the Animals Went on Strike
• 2000 Paddington Abroad
• 2000 Paddington Marches On
• 2000 Paddington at Work

• Information about Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates with episode and story guide

[edit] See also

• Peter Gurney