He first appeared in 1958, sitting atop his battered suitcase at London’s Paddington railway station. Decades on, Paddington, the marmalade-loving bear taken in by the Browns at 32 Windsor Gardens is today one of the most cherished figures in British children’s fiction. This season, he joins beloved characters like The Little Prince and Peter Rabbit as part of OLT’s Classics Collection: a select set of book clutches reserved for literature’s most enchanting titles.
