Paddington’s Party Tricks: Unabridged Library edition

By Michael Bond, Illustrated by R. W. Alley

Paddington is back again with a magic show which doesn’t please everyone in the audience! Somehow when this bear is around things never go quite according to plan…

Paddington decides to throw a birthday party for his best friend, Mr Gruber, but he doesn’t bank on it being gate-crashed by the meddlesome Mr Curry. Paddington gets his own back, however, when he puts on a magic show for entertainment, and Mr Curry gets a soaking he wasn’t quite bargaining for…

AGE 4-7

Format: Paperback
Ageband: 5 to 7
Release Date: 04 Mar 2002
Pages: 26
ISBN: 978-0-00-710764-3
Detailed Edition: Unabridged Library edition
Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 2015, Michael was awarded a CBE for his services to children’s literature, to add to the OBE he received in 1997. Michael died in 2017, leaving behind one of the great literary legacies of our time.

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