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|title=Paddington
|author=Michael Bond
|date=April 2007
|isbn=978-0007236336
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0007236336</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=0007236336|aznus=<amazonus>0007236336</amazonus>
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Paddington Bear is one of these enduring classics, a fantasy creature that entered the shared cultural consciousness. I read his stories in translation as a child in Communist Poland, and they are still popular now. This particular picture book is a re-issue of the 40th birthday edition, richly illustrated by R.W. Alley, and presents what was the first chapter of the original first volume of Paddington's adventures, the story of his arrival in Britain and at the Brown's family house at 32 Windsor Gardens.