Pooh-Comeback after 80 years!

After 80 years on from his first literary appearance, the late AA Milne’s beloved children’s character Winnie the Pooh is set to return to bookshelves. The Bear of Very Little Brain will make his comeback in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the first authorised sequel to Milne’s original 1920s stories. The book – written by David Benedictus with illustrations by Mark Burgess – is out in the UK and US on 5 October.

The new book has the blessing of the A A Milne and E H Shepard Estates. Shepard, who died in 1976, drew the famous illustrations for Milne’s 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh and its 1928 follow-up, The House at Pooh Corner.

Michael Brown of the Trustees of the Pooh Properties is hoping for a good many years that they might one day be able to offer the world a sequel which would do justice to the original Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The original books were one of the greatest celebrations of childhood in any language, but they believe that David Benedictus and Mark Burgess have captured the spirit and quality of those original books. Hoping that millions of Pooh enthusiasts and readers around the world will embrace and cherish these new stories as if they had just emerged from the pen of AA Milne himself and hope that the new book will both complement, maintain Milne’s idea that whatever happens, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

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