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The author was working on "Paddington at St
Paul's" before his death last year at the age of 91.
In his latest adventure, the marmalade-loving bear, prone to all
sorts of mishaps, visits the famed London site where, in a
commotion, he is mistaken for a member of the choir.
"Paddington was always part of our lives, he was never far from
his mind," Karen Jankel, Bond's daughter said of her father on
Wednesday at an event at St Paul's to promote the book's release
on Thursday.
"I think when he came here, the idea of Paddington coming here
sort of came to him and that ... inspired him."
The book comes out 60 years after Bond's first story about the
bear named after the London train station where he is found
following his arrival from Peru, "A Bear called Paddington".
Bond went on to write more than 20 Paddington Bear books, of
which 35 million copies have been sold worldwide, inspiring two
films.
Dressed in his usual attire, a Paddington Bear figure greeted
visitors to the cathedral on Wednesday, where a memorial service
for Bond was held in November, and children took part in an arts
and crafts session.
"It would be nice to think that it would carry on for another 60
years," Jankel said of her father's legacy. "And maybe beyond
that, you never know."
(Reporting by Lisa Keddie; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Alison Williams)
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