The Big Picture - Penguin pal
Kathryn Ingham
Sunday, October 2, 2016
A penguin toy that featured in a little-known photo of beloved children’s author AA Milne and his son Christopher has inspired a new story celebrating the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Penguin appears in one of four stories in The Best Bear in All the World. Author Brian Sibley said, ‘While pondering what other toys Christopher Robin might have owned, 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 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.’
- The Best Bear in All the World is published on 6 October.
