Paddington Bear Statue stolen in England two; 2 men charged

“I bought a small toy bear on Christmas Eve 1956. I saw how he left in a shelf in a London shop and that it was sorry for it,” said Bond about the bear before he died in June 2017, according to Paddington website. “I took it home as a gift for my wife Brenda and called it Paddington when we lived near the Paddington station at the time. I wrote some stories about the bear, more for fun than with the idea of ​​publishing them. After 10 days I found that I had a book in my hands. It was not written specifically for children, but I think I pulled the friendly things that I like to read about when I was young. “

Paddington became orphaned after an earthquake when he was only a few weeks old, according to the organic biography. Paddington was sent by his aunt Lucy to London, England, who took care of him before she retired to a house in Lima. She taught the young bear to “speak perfect English” and arranged that he was a stovaway in a ship rescue boat, the biography says.