Paddingtons Twelve Days of Christmas
By (Author) Michael Bond
By (author) Karen Jankel
Illustrated by R. W. Alley
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
30th September 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Hardback
32
Width 265mm, Height 271mm, Spine 5mm
270g
Celebrate Christmas with everyones favourite bear, Paddington now a major movie star!
Everyone in the Brown family is singing about some wonderful Christmas gifts theyve received. But Paddington cant even find the partridge in a pear tree! He sets out to solve the mystery and is soon planning a spectacular Christmas Day surprise
Sing along with Paddington Bear in this funny festive story!
Praise for the Paddington series:
Ive always had great respect for PaddingtonHe is a British institution. Stephen Fry
Paddington has joined Pooh as one of the great bears of English childrens literature. Teacher
Michael Bonds accident-prone bearhas become one of the most enduring of childrens characters. Bookseller
Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading. He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years. In 2015, Michael was awarded a CBE for his services to childrens literature, to add to the OBE he received in 1997. Michael died in 2017, leaving behind one of the great literary legacies of our time.
Karen Jankel is the daughter of Michael Bond. For over 30 years she ran Paddington and Company, looking after the worldwide licensing rights for her fathers creation. During that time Karen and her father collaborated on a number of concept books and stories. Since 2017 Karen has run her late fathers literary estate and continues to work closely with HarperCollins across all of Michael Bonds books, including the Paddington titles that she co-wrote.