![]() ![]() Squeak the penguin, from the Christmas edition of Harrods News, 1922. ![]() “But what makes … these tales so memorable is their ability to work on two different levels: the child listener to the story always understands what is happening just before Pooh and the others do while the adult reading to the child engages by recognising that, under their fur and feathers, the characters are just like people we know among our family, friends and colleagues.” “The stories may be light on plot: small, child-sized incidents involving mishaps and misunderstandings and experiences with that constant feature of country life – the weather. “Milne’s effortless writing, especially in the Pooh books, at first seems highly imitable – until, that is, you attempt the imitation,” he said. The writer said that he had loved Winnie-the-Pooh since childhood, and that writing his own story was “wildly exciting”, but “also daunting”. “The thought of Pooh encountering a penguin seemed no more outlandish than his meeting a kangaroo and a tiger in a Sussex wood, so I started thinking about what might have happened if, on a rather snowy day, Penguin had found his way to Pooh Corner,” said Sibley, one of four authors to have contributed a seasonal story to the official sequel, The Best Bear in All the World, which will come out on 6 October from Egmont. ![]()
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