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Paddington Bear merchandise, including the stuffed toy, on sale at Paddington station. The first Paddington Bear stuffed toy to be manufactured was created in 1972 by Gabrielle Designs, a small family business run by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson, with the prototype made as a Christmas present for their children Joanna and Jeremy Clarkson, a now ...
The number of different Paddington products soon grew until Paddington’s image was appearing on an array of items from greetings cards to wallpaper. Meanwhile, Paddington’s popularity was beginning to grow outside the UK and in 1975 the US company Eden Toys acquired the licence to make and sell Paddington bears throughout the rest of the world.
The first Paddington Bear stuffed toy to be manufactured was created in 1972 by Gabrielle Designs, a small business run by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson, with the prototype made as a Christmas present for their children Joanna and Jeremy Clarkson (who later became a well-known British TV presenter and writer).
Feb 16, 2011 · Paddington Bear. That proper British bear, Paddington Brown, was first seen in the 1958 book A Bear Named Paddington by Michael Bond. Loved for his blue overcoat, oversize hat and preference for marmalade sandwiches, Paddington didn't make an appearance off the page until 1972, when Gabrielle Designs began manufacturing plush Paddingtons in the ...
Sep 15, 2021 · But the bear’s fur is most often black, with a tan face framed by black patches. That didn’t fit Michael’s character at all. He pictured Paddington as the same color as his stuffed bear. However, some spectacled bears are light brown, while others have a reddish tint. Paddington could be tan, just like Michael had imagined.
- Stacy Conradt
- IT STARTED WITH A LONELY TEDDY BEAR. Have you ever seen a neglected toy abandoned on a store shelf or tossed aside, unwanted, and felt oddly sorry for it?
- PADDINGTON ISN'T HIS REAL NAME. Paddington isn't this beloved bear's real name. He has a Peruvian name, but tells his adoptive family that no one would be able to understand it (we find out much later that it's "Pastuso").
- HE WASN'T ALWAYS FROM PERU. Originally, Paddington wasn't going to be from Darkest Peru. First drafts had Paddington calling "darkest Africa" home. But after Bond got an agent, the agent informed him no bears exist in Africa.
- IT TOOK SEVEN YEARS FOR MICHAEL BOND TO QUIT HIS DAY JOB. It took about seven years from the time the first book was published in 1958, but eventually the sales of Paddington books allowed Bond to retire from his job as a cameraman for the BBC.
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Jan 14, 2015 · Meanwhile, Paddington Bear was created in 1956 by Michael Bond. The story goes that Bond had noticed a stuffed bear sitting alone on a shelf in Selfridges on Christmas Eve and purchased it for his wife Brenda. He opted to name it Paddington after the station because it was closest to his home.
