Paddington and the Stately Home - Softcover

Bond, Michael

9780001983687: Paddington and the Stately Home

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0001983687 ISBN 13: 9780001983687

Publisher: Picture Lions, 1999

Paddington and Mr Gruber go on a tour round Luckham Hall. Lord Luckham shows them all the family heirlooms, but Paddington is more interested in the prospect of Beef Wellington for lunch.

Paddington disrupts things as usual by finding secret passages behind the bookshelves, which the public are not supposed to know anything about, and then, to cap it all, he “helps out” in the kitchen with the Beef Wellington. Lord Luckham is distraught when he finds that the famous dish has been made from REAL Wellingtons! But a reporter from the local paper is thrilled with the day, saying it’ll make all be very amusing for her readers. So once again, Paddington comes out on top...

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About the Author:

Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 2015, Michael was awarded a CBE for his services to children’s literature, to add to the OBE he received in 1997. Michael died in 2017, leaving behind one of the great literary legacies of our time.

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