The Royal Mint has marked the famous bear’s 95th birthday with collectable coins. Mint designers have said the nine commemorative coins are inspired by E H Shepard’s original drawings and A A Milne’s stories. Pooh…
Posted on September 13, 2021
In 2018 the original illustrated map of The Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, was sold for a record £430,000. The 1926 sketch by E.H. Shepard introduced readers…
Posted on September 13, 2021
Ashdown Forest..Home to Pooh and friends. The worldwide popularity of A.A. Milne’s books continues to draw visitors to the forest, but thankfully the setting remains an unspoiled escape for walking, camping and dropping sticks into…
Posted on September 7, 2020
1. Winnie the Pooh author A. A. Milne named the boy in his stories after his son, Christopher Robin Milne. 2. The original Pooh bear was purchased at Harrods department store in London and given…
Posted on April 30, 2020