His other work
With his extraordinary flair for developing characters, Michael Bond has written much more besides Paddington.
- In the 1970's he created the children’s television classic The Herbs, Made in the UK by the FilmFair Ltd., the stop-start animated series featured characters based on herbs and included, among others, Dill the Dog, Sage the Owl and Parsley the Lion.
- Michael Bond has also written a series of books about a highly unusual guinea pig called Olga da Polga, the most recent of which, Olga Follows Her Nose, was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press.
- Even adults are catered for with a series of books about the peripatetic detective and gastronome par excellence, Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful hound, Pommes Frites.
- In total Michael Bond has written almost 150 books, including his autobiography Bears and Forebears which was published in the UK by HarperCollins.