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Paddington Treasury (Paddington Bear)
 

Paddington Treasury (Paddington Bear)

by Michael Bond

This treasury marks Paddington's 40th year in America, with a comprehensive collection of Sir Michael Bond's beloved stories. Peggy Fortnum's line drawings have been watercolored by her step-granddaughter Caroline Nuttall-Smith, who was not yet born when the books were first published. Since the Browns first discovered him at London's Paddington Station wearing a tag that read "Please look... (read more)

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Overview: Amazon Reviews

treasury of Paddington Bear
  • Rated 3 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-11-23
While all the Paddington stories are wonderful, an anthology of this size is too large for little ones to cuddle up with. Not enough pictures for little listeners. Single volumes would be a better bet.
Paddington Treasury
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-11-12
What a wonderful way to spend quality time with your beginning reader -- or for the independent reader to have fun reading, with both the child and grandparent (in my case) sharing in lots of humour.
tasteless rubbish
  • Rated 2 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-11-08
Tacky color that ruins the great original drawings, abridged stories and possibly too big and wrong sized pages like for the B. Potter Treasury. With these many errors, I wouldn't be surprised if they have Paddington eating Coleman's Mustard in the book and a coupon for 20 P off on a tin of the stuff.
for those who love Paddington
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-09-08
I gave this collection to each of my 4 grandchildren at our teddy bear picnic. They love Paddington.
Nice collection of Paddington stories.
  • Rated 5 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-02-14
You can tell some of the stories are missing from this collection, but it is a great price, for a large collection of some of my favorite childhood stories.

Sincerely,
Ira Carmel.
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