The long wait is finally over – Winnie-the-Pooh returns. Thank you for bearing with us!
The eagerly anticipated sequel to The House at Pooh Corner has arrived. Generations of readers can once again join Pooh and all of his loveable friends in their new adventures as they Return to the Hundred Acre Wood.
There’s a new inhabitant in the Hundred Acre wood to join our cast of favourite, much loved characters. Meet Lottie the otter, an exciting new arrival to the forest! Find out more about Lottie at Fortitude Hall.
Author David Benedictus is delighted to have worked on this exciting new project: ‘It’s an honour to have my sequel to the original stories approved by the Pooh Trustees. I hope that the new book will both complement and maintain Milne’s idea that whatever happens, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.’
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David Benedictus brought Winnie-the-Pooh to life in his dramatisations starring Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Jane Horrocks. He published his first novel at 22, and saw his second adapted for film by Francis Ford Coppola.
David assisted Sir Trevor Nunn at the RSC, was Antiques Corre-
spondent for the Evening Standard, a commissioning editor for Channel 4 and produced A Book at Bedtime for BBC Radio 4.
Mark Burgess Mark Burgess has been an illustrator of children’s books for over twenty years. Mark studied Fine Art at the Slade School in London. He then worked for a short time at London Zoo and in a library in Cambridge before becoming a full-time artist and writer. Mark was also the colourist for E. H. Shepard’s drawings in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.
When Mark’s not working he loves reading, gardening, walking in the woods near his house, and finding special warm places for his cat to sleep.
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There’s a new inhabitant in the Hundred Acre wood to join our cast of favourite, much loved characters. Meet Lottie the otter, an exciting new arrival to the forest! Find out more about Lottie at Fortitude Hall. 
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Mark Burgess
