Four new Winnie-the-Pooh stories & one new character mark 90th anniversary

Four new adventures (one for each season of the year) have been published to mark the 90th anniversary of the first Winnie-the-Pooh book, along with the introduction of a new character - Penguin. The character is based on a photograph of Pooh author AA Milne and his son Christopher playing with a penguin. Brian Sibley, who has written the new stories, says, "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 playing on the nursery floor with Winnie-the-Pooh and a penguin! The thought of Pooh encountering a penguin seemed no more outlandish than him 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 Sibley (1949) is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programmes. He is also the author of many movie 'making of' books, including those for the Harry Potter series, and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.