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Lottie

Nobody could remember anything like it. There had been no rain for forty days and forty nights, and it was getting hotter and hotter and hotter. And then something long and slinky and furry and whiskery came out of what had once been the river, but was by now little more than a sticky patch of mud, and that something turned out to be a female otter, by the name of Lottie.

Lottie is extremely proud of her fine fur coat, which is the colour of silver when the sun shines upon it and pewter when it's cloudy, of her golden eyes and her long, powerful tail, which she calls her rudder. "And beware," she likes to say, "my red tongue and my white teeth, which are sharp enough, I can promise you, when they need to be."

To Winnie-the-Pooh and his companions, the arrival of an otter in the Forest is undoubtedly a Very Big Thing. But Lottie's habit of putting on airs and graces and her haughty manner mean they don’t know quite what to make of her at first. Only time will tell if Lottie is to become a treasured friend in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Lottie, the new character in the Hundred Acre Wood!

Lottie, the new character in the Hundred Acre Wood!