An authorised sequel to AA Milne's children's classic The House at Pooh Corner is to be published later this year, more than 80 years after the original.
By Stephen Adams, Arts Correspondent
10 Jan 2009
'We hope that the many millions of Pooh enthusiasts and readers around the world will embrace and cherish these new stories'
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood will reflect Milne's idea that "whatever happens, a little boy and his bear will always be playing", author David Benedictus said.
Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh have been fixed firmly in the imagination of British children since Milne and illustrator EH Shephard created the characters in the 1920s.
But up until now they have been left in the "enchanted place", as Milne called the wood.
He dropped hints in the 1928 book, which followed Winnie the Pooh (1924), that Christopher Robin was growing up.
Enthusiasts will be intrigued to discover how Benedictus copes with creating an older Christopher, but the author said the contents of the book were a closely guarded secret.
He worked on audio CD adaptations of Winnie the Pooh stories, before turning his hand to the sequel.
The new book will follow a similar format to Milne's Winnie the Pooh books, according to Egmont Publishing, which struck a deal with the A A Milne and E H Shepard Estates.
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