Happy Birthday, Paddington
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If everyone has their own special branch of geeky to them--tech and gadgets, designer handbags, reality TV, music, Martha Stewart-- books happen to be mine. Be it a really cool new book like Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard or Flannery O'Connor, books are my geeky pleasure.
So imagine my delight when the Google browser for today lets everyone know that today's the 50th anniversary of Paddington Bear. It's a story as cute as Corduroy's, though somehow less well known, about a teddy bear found in Paddington station with a note: "Please Look After This Bear. Thank you." Being a children's lit fan, ...
