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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.’

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