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Winnie the Pooh's 80 year comeback
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by LotusFlower | January 10, 2009 at 01:04 am
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Winnie the Pooh is to make a literary comeback 80 years on from his first appearance.
What? You thought that there had been lots of publications in the intervening years? Well lots of Disney adaptations but never an officially sanctioned set of new stories.
Get ready for some new adventures of Winnie our bear of very little brain called 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood' - in a bookshop near you in October.
The late AA Milne's beloved children's character Winnie the Pooh is set to return to bookshelves, 80 years on from his first literary appearance.
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.
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at 07:52 on January 10th, 2009
I'm hoping for more old-school Pooh and less Disney Pooh.
at 07:58 on January 10th, 2009
That is good news, I wish they do the same with the Grimm Brothers Tails and the Persian tails of 1001 nights, I am getting really tiered of Disney.
at 11:54 on January 10th, 2009
Yes - for me Pooh is English but Disney have him sounding American - I hope the new books are true to the original spirit - the illustrations too - not like the Disney image that pervades now.
at 15:00 on January 10th, 2009
It's actually called 'The Bear of Very Little Brain'??
I think that's awful; just because Winnie the Pooh wasn't the smartest bear around it didn't matter because he taught children a lot of other things about being a good friend and sharing, now if it is called that, there could be much more focus on how dumb he is, rather than what else he has to offer.
at 15:03 on January 10th, 2009
Oh no Amy! It's called 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood' Winnie was always refered to in the original books as a 'bear of very little brain' :-)
at 15:19 on January 10th, 2009
Oh, well that's better then. I thought they were highlighting the fact that he wasn't very clever.
at 15:30 on January 10th, 2009
The Bear of Very Little Brain is I've heard the title of a proposed biography of George Bush...
at 15:35 on January 10th, 2009
now that would fit I think.. :)
at 16:52 on January 10th, 2009
Let's hope he's an English bear again as he's seemed to have lost the way.
at 17:52 on January 10th, 2009
He was never one of my favorites.
at 19:21 on January 10th, 2009
I hope the new adventures include Eeyore. He's my favorite!
Of course, I wish they'd stop featuring him with a grin. He looks like a Stepford Eeyore! He supposed to be gloomy!
at 00:09 on January 11th, 2009
Oh yes - Eeyore - always in a gorse bush - his tail pinned on - Eeyore - love him!
at 12:31 on January 11th, 2009
Winnie the Pooh in the Disney Dreams Come True Parade at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
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