The Browns have a very unpleasant next-door-neighbour, Mr. Paddington wears an old bush hat which was handed down to him by his uncle in Peru and he is hardly ever seen without it. When Paddington first went to live with the Browns they bought him a blue duffle coat which he wears most of the time. It has a hood and is fastened with wooden toggles. Paddington is rarely parted from his battered, brown, leather suitcase.
It has his initials P. Paddington is famous for his love of marmalade and he is particularly fond of it in marmalade sandwiches. The marmalade-loving bear switched to loving Marmite, a yeast spread in The switch was slammed by many, and one marmalade company said the bear "sold out.
The Paddington Bear creator considered suing Shirley and Eddie Clarkson after he found out the couple was selling the bear in the s. Bond approached his lawyer with a possibility of suing them, but then changed his mind after he became friends with the couple in an elevator and decided to give them a license to sell the bear. He always tried his hardest, but he had a knack for making a mess of things. Then, of course, he would try to put everything right — usually making even more of a mess.
Many times, the messes came from his marmalade sandwiches, which he loved and always kept an extra one under his hat. After that first little story, Bond wrote several more, and after 10 days, he realized that he had a book. That little Peruvian bear captured the hearts of British children and adults and went on to conquer the rest of the world. The Paddington books have sold more than thirty-five million copies worldwide and have been translated into over forty different languages.
The character in the book came to life when the first stuffed toy Paddington Bears were made in the early s by Shirley and Eddie Clarkson.
They owned a small home-based business called Gabrielle Designs and the Paddington prototypes were given to their children, a young Jeremy Clarkson now a British TV presenter and his sister.
The bears were a hit. When the little bear in the book had arrived in England, his only article of clothing was his old hat which was a gift from his uncle. Then Mrs. Brown bought him a duffle coat to make him look less conspicuous. The Clarksons added little wellington boots to his ensemble so the bear would stand up. Bond liked the wellies so much that he later wrote them into his books.
Paddington Bear has become such a symbol of the UK that, in , when the two sides of the Channel Tunnel were connected, a Paddington Bear was the first item to pass through it from the British side: When the Brits broke through the wall, they passed a Paddington Bear through to the French — what could be more British?
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