The Best Bear in All the World ‘Ninety?’ said Winnie-the-Pooh. ‘Is that more than seven?’ ‘Yes, Pooh,’ said Kanga patiently. ‘You’re ninety years old, which calls for a celebration.’... Ashdown Forest’s favourite fictional son stars once again in this delightful book of four seasonal short stories, Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer, written by four children’s authors. It follows Pooh and his friends as they encounter mythical creatures, mysterious new friends and foes, some new hums and a peculiar type of sauce…
Brian Sibley
...‘You see, someone had heard, and another person had mentioned, and then somebody had decided that it was time to share some more of Winniethe-Pooh’s adventures. As being ninety years old was a Very Great Thing’.
playing on the nursery floor with Winnie-the-Pooh and – a toy penguin!
A new character, Penguin, also joins them in Winter, written by Brian Sibley. He comments: “While pondering what other toys Christopher Robin might have owned but which were never written about, I remembered seeing a photograph of father and son
“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…” Brian is a writer, broadcaster and radio dramatist. He edited The Pooh Sketchbook and The Pooh Book of Quotations and has written, Continues over the page.
- Introduction to The Best Bear in All the World This year marks the 90th anniversary of the first publication of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. To celebrate, The Best Bear in All the World was recently released; it is an official sequel based on the original stories and illustrated in the style of E.H. Shepard.
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