A Bear Called Paddington

Title: A Bear Called Paddington

Author: Michael Bond

Illustrator: Peggy Fortnum

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Middle Grade

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    "A bear? On Paddington station?" Mrs. Brown looked at her husband in amazement. "Don't be silly, Henry. There can't be!"

    Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same... for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved. 

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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese — 

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove,

That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,

Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,

Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow Rivers to whose falls

Melodious birds sing Madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of Roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool

Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and Ivy buds,

With Coral clasps and Amber studs:

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me, and be my love.

The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May-morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me, and be my love.

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“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — 

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"To educate without a value system based on truth is to abandon young people to moral confusion, personal insecurity, and easy manipulation." -- Pope John Paul II --

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“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton –

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring --