winnie the pooh coloring sheets
winnie the pooh coloring sheets
The first official sequel to the original Winnie-the-Pooh books will come out in October, its publishing company* said on Saturday, more than eighty years after the honey-loving bear first seemed in print.
“Return to the Hundred Acre Wood” is the follow up to A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” and “The House At Pooh Corner”, which were famously illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
The new book, published by Egmont publication in Britain and Pengiun imprint Dutton Children’s Books in the United States, will be written by David Benedictus, who produced an audio adaptation of Winnie-the-Pooh starring actress Judi Dench.
Mark Burgess, who has already drawn classic children’s characters including Paddington Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh, is to provide the illustrations. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood will hit the shelves on Oct. 5.
“We have been hoping for a good many years that we might one day be able to offer the world a sequel which would do justice to the original Winnie-the-Pooh stories,” said Michael Brown on behalf of the trustees of Pooh Properties, which manages the affairs of the Milne and Shepard estates.
“The original books were one of the greatest celebrations of childhood in any language, but we believe that David Benedictus and Mark Burgess have captured the spirit and quality of those original books.”
The story of Winnie-the-Pooh and the original illustrations are still popular today.
A collection of Shepard’s drawings for the Pooh books fetched around $2 million at auction in London last month. (Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato) (To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog “Fan Fare” online at http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare)
Source: Reuters North American News Service
2009 will see the return of one of the world’s best-loved fictional characters, Winnie the Pooh. The loveable bear was created by British writer A.A. Milne and first appeared in a book in 1926. Milne only wrote two novels about Pooh’s adventures, the last being ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ in 1928. Eighty years later, those in charge of the Pooh name allowed the publication of a sequel. The third book will be called ‘Return to the Hundred Acre Wood’. It will hit bookstore shelves on October the 5th and should be an instant bestseller. Many people predict it will be the biggest seller of the year. The Pooh books have been translated into 50 languages. In 1966, the Walt Disney company started making movies about Pooh and turned the character into a household name.