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New Pooh story comes after an 80-year break
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January 11, 2009, Sunday
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THE world's favorite "silly old bear" will return after an 80-year break.
Publishers in Britain and the United States said on Friday they would publish a new book of Winnie-the-Pooh adventures in October this year.
"Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" is the first authorized sequel to A. A. Milne's Pooh stories, which were first published in the 1920s.
The book will be published in Britain by Egmont Publishing and in the US by Penguin Dutton Children's Books, they said.
The new book was written by novelist and playwright David Benedictus, who has adapted several Pooh stories for audio CD, and illustrated by Briton Mark Burgess.
The publishers would not disclose details of the sequel's plot, but Benedictus said he hoped his book would "both complement and maintain Milne's idea that whatever happens, a little boy and his bear will always be playing."
The beloved "bear of very little brain" first appeared in 1926 in Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh," which featured E.H. Shepard's now-iconic line drawings.
The book and its 1928 sequel, "The House at Pooh Corner," recount the gentle adventures of Christopher Robin - the sole human character, named after Milne's son - and his animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Milne's books have been translated into more than 50 languages, including Latin.
Publishers in Britain and the United States said on Friday they would publish a new book of Winnie-the-Pooh adventures in October this year.
"Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" is the first authorized sequel to A. A. Milne's Pooh stories, which were first published in the 1920s.
The book will be published in Britain by Egmont Publishing and in the US by Penguin Dutton Children's Books, they said.
The new book was written by novelist and playwright David Benedictus, who has adapted several Pooh stories for audio CD, and illustrated by Briton Mark Burgess.
The publishers would not disclose details of the sequel's plot, but Benedictus said he hoped his book would "both complement and maintain Milne's idea that whatever happens, a little boy and his bear will always be playing."
The beloved "bear of very little brain" first appeared in 1926 in Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh," which featured E.H. Shepard's now-iconic line drawings.
The book and its 1928 sequel, "The House at Pooh Corner," recount the gentle adventures of Christopher Robin - the sole human character, named after Milne's son - and his animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Milne's books have been translated into more than 50 languages, including Latin.
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