A Bear Called Paddington
A Bear Called Paddington
Chapter one – Please Look After This Bear
Summary
Mr. and Mrs. Brown first meet Paddington on a railway platform while waiting for their daughter Judy. He is sitting on an old leather suitcase near the lost property office, wearing an unusual hat and a label round his neck which reads `Please Look After This Bear. Thank You'. He explains that he has been sent from Peru by his Aunt Lucy who has had to go into a home for retired bears. After a sticky adventure with some cream buns in the station buffet, they take him in a taxi to stay with them in their home at Number 32 Windsor Gardens.
Themes
The most prominent theme, I have found in “A Bear Called Paddington” are “values”. Throughout the book the aspect of helping one another is quite well illustrated. Some pupils might even identify themselves with the situation Paddington is in at the beginning of the story. As being new to another city, even more to a foreign country is something that at least some children might already have experienced due to moving houses, even moving countries and being new in class.
The parents offer help in the situation where Paddington seems to be lost in that very busy place of the railway station. They help him unquestioningly. Although he is foreign and even more a bear, all family members include him in the family life.
Genre
“A Bear Called Paddington” can be identified as a chapter book. A chapter book is a story book aimed at readers, around the age of 7-10. and tells the story through prose, rather than picture books that rely on illustrations. The stories are usually divided into short chapters, which gives the pupils the opportunity to read the book in their own pace.
“A Bear Called Paddington” mixes the fantastical with the ordinary. In the story, Paddington is a talking bear that acts like a human being, but that is where the fantastical stops and the ordinary stories begin.
Launguage
“A Bear Called Paddington” is a very authentic
Chapter one – Please Look After This Bear
Summary
Mr. and Mrs. Brown first meet Paddington on a railway platform while waiting for their daughter Judy. He is sitting on an old leather suitcase near the lost property office, wearing an unusual hat and a label round his neck which reads `Please Look After This Bear. Thank You'. He explains that he has been sent from Peru by his Aunt Lucy who has had to go into a home for retired bears. After a sticky adventure with some cream buns in the station buffet, they take him in a taxi to stay with them in their home at Number 32 Windsor Gardens.
Themes
The most prominent theme, I have found in “A Bear Called Paddington” are “values”. Throughout the book the aspect of helping one another is quite well illustrated. Some pupils might even identify themselves with the situation Paddington is in at the beginning of the story. As being new to another city, even more to a foreign country is something that at least some children might already have experienced due to moving houses, even moving countries and being new in class.
The parents offer help in the situation where Paddington seems to be lost in that very busy place of the railway station. They help him unquestioningly. Although he is foreign and even more a bear, all family members include him in the family life.
Genre
“A Bear Called Paddington” can be identified as a chapter book. A chapter book is a story book aimed at readers, around the age of 7-10. and tells the story through prose, rather than picture books that rely on illustrations. The stories are usually divided into short chapters, which gives the pupils the opportunity to read the book in their own pace.
“A Bear Called Paddington” mixes the fantastical with the ordinary. In the story, Paddington is a talking bear that acts like a human being, but that is where the fantastical stops and the ordinary stories begin.
Launguage
“A Bear Called Paddington” is a very authentic