![]() ![]() ![]() In 1958, an editor at Collins named Barbara Ker Wilson received a manuscript submission about a talking bear, which she opened with “initial suspicion”-as the publisher had received many other proposals featuring humanized animals that “are invariably either whimsy-whamsy, written down, or filled with adult innuendoes.” However, Wilson found herself “completely won over by the author’s simplicity of style” and his “simple and direct approach.” The manuscript, from a television cameraman named Michael Bond, was about a bear named Paddington. ![]()
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