In this excerpt from the first authorized sequel to the last Winnie-the-Pooh book published in 1928, author David Benedictus introduces the lovable bear to the meaning of the word “heirloom.” This new book titled Return to the Hundred Acre Wood is now available in bookstores worldwide.
“It was July. The morning of the party dawned warm and sunny and the spinney in the Hundred Acre Wood was looking its finest. There were speckles of light on the ground where the sun had found a way through the branches, and other places where the branches had said No. Kanga found a mossy place and laid a table with her best linen tablecloth, the one with bunches of grapes embroidered around the edges, and Rabbit brought his best willow-pattern teacups, and said that they were Heirlooms, and when Pooh asked Owl in a whisper what an Heirloom was, Owl said that it was a kind of kite.”
Illustrations by Mark Burgess © 2009 by Trustees of Pooh Properties
Published on October 25, 2009
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