These are fun insights into the hit and miss tastes of the publishing biz. For example, from the article, "A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, 28 August 1

These are fun insights into the hit and miss tastes of the publishing biz. For example, from the article, "A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, 28 August 1957": I think the author has missed his mark in this story of a bear adopted by a middle-class family called Brown. Unless I mistake him he means it to be funny but the jokes are all on the bear; the Browns treat him very much as I imagine they would treat a "foreigner" and as one’s sympathies and affections are all with the bear it is difficult to laugh with the author. Moreover the Brown family are perfect fools, they leave him alone to bath and nearly to drown; they twice lose him, once on the Underground and once in a large store simply through inattention. No – frankly the best of the book lies in its title. I kinda feel F&F's department of humour kinda had a very rigid pole up its ass. I bet they were kicking themselves after this went on to be published initially by Collins in '58.