In 1980 Bond wrote in a Horn Book article, "If there is something magical about reading, there is also a feeling of excitement about slipping a blank sheet of paper into the typewriter and embarking on a voyage of exploration which, one hopes, others will enjoy too. By 1966 his Paddington books were selling so well that he was able to become a full-time writer. Television cameraman and a writer, producing adult stories, newspaper articles, radio and television scripts, children's plays, and finally children's books. After the war he worked with a monitoring service before returning to the BBC in 1950. In 1943, during World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force as a navigator, but extreme airsickness forced him to transfer to the British Army in 1944, and he finished his service in 1947 in the Middlesex Regiment. He attended Presentation College in Reading from 1934 to 1940, then worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London as an engineer's assistant. As a result, he became a voracious reader throughout his childhood. Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform.'… It was a simple act and in terms of deathless prose, not exactly earth shattering, but it was to change my life considerably.… Without intending it, I had become a children's author." BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONīond was born January 13, 1926, in Newbury, Berkshire, England, and was raised by parents who often read to him. He sat on a shelf of our one-roomed apartment for a while, and then one day when I was sitting in front of my typewriter staring at a blank sheet of paper wondering what to write, I idly tapped out the words 'Mr. I bought him and because we were living near Paddington station at the time, we christened him Paddington. "On one of the shelves I came across a small bear looking, I thought, very sorry for himself as he was the only one who hadn't been sold. According to interviews, Bond stopped by a London store on Christmas Eve in 1957 to buy a present for his wife.
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INTRODUCTIONīond is the author of a series of well-known children's books focusing on a stuffed animal named Paddington-a lovable, genial, bumbling, charming, ingenious, innocent, and very funny bear. The best family film I've seen in a very very long time.(Full name Thomas Michael Bond) English author of children's books.įor additional criticism on Bond's works, see CLR, Volume 1.
Sure, I don't think we really needed this villain, but as far as the story of Paddington finding a family and a home goes it's genuinely heartwarming. Yeah it's a pretty basic story, but damnit all the story works. When it's not funny, it's still extremely charming and just damn likable. It uses wit and charm to convey it's humor and it works.
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The movie is just unbearably (no pun intended) funny, and it manages to be funny in a way that is clean and clever. Literally from the first minute of screen-time as I was settling in I had already started laughing. But nothing about it is inherently bad, at worst it's just standard in a movie that is otherwise really good. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, at it's core this is still a fairly standard family film about finding a place to belong, and I really didn't care for the central conflict or the villain. It was only after years of insistence that no, this time it's good, that I actually got around to seeing it is, it really is. Everything about it's CGI live-action family film hybrid screamed "we've done this before, and it was garbage" to me.
When I saw the trailers, I just thought "oh great, more Garfield/Alvin and The Chipmunks bull****". It took me four years to get around to seeing it.
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