Paddington’s Party Tricks: A Humorous Children's Book About a Birthday Magic Show - Softcover

Bond, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007107641 ISBN 13: 9780007107643

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2002

Synopsis

Paddington is back again with a magic show which doesn’t please everyone in the audience! Somehow when this bear is around things never go quite according to plan…

Paddington decides to throw a birthday party for his best friend, Mr Gruber, but he doesn’t bank on it being gate-crashed by the meddlesome Mr Curry. Paddington gets his own back, however, when he puts on a magic show for entertainment, and Mr Curry gets a soaking he wasn’t quite bargaining for…

AGE 4-7

Michael Bond's book 'Paddington’s Trick or Treat' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-09-22.

About this title

About the Authors

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.

R. W. Alley has illustrated many children’s books. he lives in Rhode Island, USA, with is wife and two children.

From the Back Cover

Paddington decides to throw a birthday party for his best friend, Mr Gruber, but he doesn’t bank on it being gate-crashed by the meddlesome Mr Curry. Paddington gets his own back, however, when he puts on a magic show for entertainment, and Mr Curry gets a soaking he wasn’t quite bargaining for…

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007107641
• ISBN 13: 9780007107643
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Alley R. W.
• Number of pages: 26