New Releases by Michael Bond

A chance encounter leaves Monsieur Pamplemousse with a ticket to the filming of Claude Chavignol''s popular culinary TV show. But the audience''s enjoyment comes to an abrupt halt when Chavignol starts choking - he has been poisoned and dies on live TV.

Here’s Paddington once more, just returned from a visit to Darkest Peru and his Aunt Lucy’s birthday celebration at the Home for Retired Bears. Now that Paddington is home with the Browns, he’s free to cause his usual kind of trouble: dabbling in the stock market, trying a career as a barber, even taking a turn at the ballet. But the promise of international fame doesn’t turn this bear’s head. Not for long, at least. Indeed, readers will agree, it’s far better to be simply a bear called Paddington.

There''s been no end to the chaos at 32 Windsor Gardens since Paddington, that irresistible bear from Darkest Peru, joined the Brown family. Even Mrs. Bird, the housekeeper, has learned that there''s no knowing what''s likely to happen when he''s around. Well meaning as ever, Paddington''s at it again, and this time he really goes to town. If a boulder rolls down the aisle of a bus, sending the entire carload careening; if a visitor to the hospital leaves even the staff psychiatrist baffled; or if a hostess discovers her surprise dessert is "baked elastic," you can be sure that Paddington is somewhere close at hand. Paddington fans will be delighted as, once more, that bear turns things merrily, unpredictably topsy-turvy in this revised edition of Paddington Goes to Town.

The original story of everyone''s favourite bear, Paddington, now a major movie star! "A bear on Paddington Station?" said Mrs Brown in amazement. "Don''t be silly - 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. For more than sixty years, Paddington Bear has touched the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures.

There is nothing that Paddington Bear loves better than living with the Browns...except maybe marmalade! But now Mr. and Mrs. Brown have given him something else to love at number thirty-two Windsor Gardens -- his very own garden. Paddington sets to work in an attempt to create the most interesting garden he can. In typical Paddington style, hapless mischief leads to blind luck, and his garden turns out to be a most unique site indeed! Paddington Bear has charmed readers for more than forty years. Now another generation of fans can Join the beloved bear from Darkest Peru on a variety of adventures written by Michael Bond and illustrated by artist R. W. Alley

The further adventures of Olga as she matches wits with Boris, another guinea pig, who tells stories even taller than her own.

The circus is in town and Paddington is very excited. The Browns get tickets for the front row so Paddington can see all the action. He gets a shock when it looks like a clown on stilts is going to give him a soaking, but not as much of a shock as the audience gets when Paddington tries his hand at the trapeze….

Monsieur Pamplemousse is a former securite sleuth turned food inspector. Together with his faithful hound, Pommes Frites, Pamplemousse finds himself investigating some criminal cuisine"

Left to his own devices, Paddington decides to surprise the Browns. In between baking them a chocolate cake, he sets about giving the house a ‘Spring Clean’. Unfortunately, the two don’t always mix!

When he hears members of the Brown household singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Paddington gets confused and thinks they are receiving unusual presents that keep disappearing before he can see them.

Aristede Pamplemouse, undercover inspector for a prestigious food directory, and his blood hound companion, Pommes Frites, investigate shady goings-on at a popular health farm called Chateau Morgue.

A play about Paddington Bear for children.

"As light and naughty as a spiked creampuff . . . a bawdy romp in a French accent." Houston Post. Monseiur Pamplemousse has been summoned by the director of Le Guide, the prestigious culinary magazine for which Pamplemousse writes restaurant reviews. The aunt of the director''s wife, whose restaurant perpetrates some of the worst food in France, is demanding to be included in the next issue. With the director''s marriage at stake, he dispatches Pamplemousse to the Hotel du Paradis. There, Pamplemousse meets Aunt Louise, who serves him a dinner that causes his gorge to rise . . . and other things as well, for the meal contains an aphrodisiac of undeniable potency. Who would do such a thing? And why?

The third adventure of M. Pamplemousse and his canine companion Pommes Frites begins at Les Cing Parfaits where, after one of the Parfait freres vanishes, the detective is called in to find the culprits and return the missing dessert

When Paddington Bear visits the Tower of London, his suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches causes unexpected trouble.

A collection of stories, comics, poems, and folktales about bears both real and imaginary.