Paddington Bear is officially fifty years old today. I almost feel like digging out my old books and enjoying the bear from darkest Peru, dressed almost continually in his rain coat and hat and galoshes.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Happy Birthday, Paddington Bear!
I friggin' loved Paddington Bear as a kid. I even tried marmalade because Paddington liked it so much (I, however, did not like it so much). And so, while going onto Google today, I was extremely excited/surprised to see this:
Paddington Bear is officially fifty years old today. I almost feel like digging out my old books and enjoying the bear from darkest Peru, dressed almost continually in his rain coat and hat and galoshes.
Paddington Bear is officially fifty years old today. I almost feel like digging out my old books and enjoying the bear from darkest Peru, dressed almost continually in his rain coat and hat and galoshes.
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I didn't read many of the Paddington Bear books, but I do remember the stop-motion cartoon (at least I think I do. There was one of those, right?) Good for him, beating out Christopher Columbus for the Google design of the day.
Yup, there was in fact a stop motion cartoon!
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