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The author Michael Bond, creator of the hugely popular children’s character Paddington Bear, has died at the age of 91.

Bond died at home on Tuesday following a short illness, his publisher HarperCollins announced Wednesday in a statement on Facebook, calling him a “giant of children’s literature.”
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Bond was born in Berkshire, England in 1926 and began writing in 1945, after serving in World War II.
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He was working as a cameraman for the BBC when he came up with the idea of a small toy bear that he named after Paddington Station in London, near where he was living at the time.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/europe/michael-bond-paddington-bear/index.html

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