SuitabookHome and belonging
Paddington has felt at home with the Brown family, while a visitor connected with his past prompts a question about where home really is.
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Michael Bond - Author
R. W. Alley - Author
Peggy Fortnum - Author
This is a domestic adventure about Paddington and a visitor connected with his past. Its central interest appears to be how a familiar family home is affected by questions of belonging.
Since the Browns found Paddington on a railway platform and took him home to live with them, there has never been a dull moment at number 32 Windsor Gardens. But as he explained to them at the start, "Things happen to me: I'm that sort of a bear."There's the day his basket on wheels mysteriously disappears when he's out shopping in the market. And the time he locks the Browns' grouchy old neighbor, Mr. Curry, out of his house on Halloween night.However, everyone in the family, including Paddington, agrees that a surprise visit from a long-lost relative is the start of his most exciting adventure ever.For the first time in almost thirty years, everyone's favorite bear from Darkest Peru is starring in a brand-new novel—just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of his first adventure, A Bear Called Paddington.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a domestic adventure about Paddington and a visitor connected with his past. Its central interest appears to be how a familiar family home is affected by questions of belonging.
Paddington has felt at home with the Brown family, while a visitor connected with his past prompts a question about where home really is.
The story includes comic misadventures involving Paddington and his neighbours.
The missing basket, being locked out, and the unexpected relative may merit attention if mishaps, social embarrassment or family-related uncertainty could unsettle the reader.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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