"Even Paddington can't come to much harm in half an hour," said Mrs Brown optimistically. But he can manage a lot of other things in even less time - like hanging Mr Curry's lawnmower from a tree-top, or coming up through the bandstand floor during the `Surprise Symphony'.

Then Paddington has a sticky time of it making toffee in Mrs Bird's kitchen, and an even stickier time explaining what went wrong.

And who else but Paddington could set Father Christmas's beard on fire?

This book is part of a book series called Paddington .

This book has been graded for interest at 7+ years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Michael Bond has published many books including the phenomenally-successful Paddington Bear books and in 1997 received the OBE for his services to children's literature.