Rating: 4/5
I read this brilliant story as an audio book, so there are less descriptions and no ‘said such-and-such’, but I still found it a great tale full of adventure. In fact, I think it may well be better to listen along with nothing telling you who’s talking because it seems as if they are really speaking, and you are part of the story, and it’s coming to life as you read. The people telling my version hesitated often, talking slowly and clearly to let the listener hear.
Paddington wasn’t at all called that at first. He was found by the Browns at Paddington Station, only to inform them that he didn’t really have a name at all; well, he did, but that was in bear language, and nobody could understand Spanish anyway, for he lived in Peru. Judy and Jonathan Brown were proud and boastful to have a bear in the house, and Mrs and Mr Brown were – well, Mr Brown was astonished and rather disliked the ‘animal’, but Mrs. was interested to know about him and eager to help find his people.
Read (or listen) to this great book, and find out what happens in Paddington’s adventures!