Daily Archives: August 3, 2008

At a loose end: Michael Bond’s Paddington: Here and Now

I’ve just finished the latest Paddington Bear book and it has been a gas. Paddington: Here and Now marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Bear from darkest Peru’s appearance at Paddington station. Needless to say, he finds himself frequently at … Continue reading

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William Croft Dickinson

A couple of weeks ago, I read Borrobil but couldn’t see anything on the author with the Wikipedia page being deleted. I also tried the continuum encyclopedia and the Oxford companion but no beans. I should have known that the … Continue reading

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Estranging the Nursery – Mary Poppins

Despite its Disneyfication, the novel of P.L. Travers is a fantastic fairy tale combining a fairy tale with a remaking of a happier England. Born Queensland in 1906, Travers left for England during the 1920s. Mary Poppins was first published … Continue reading

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