Celebrating 90 Years of Two Much-loved British Icons in a Brand New Short Adventure

Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday - Seite 2

Winnie-the-Pooh has had previous links with Her Majesty The Queen, with The Duke and The Duchess of York being presented with a Christopher Robin china nursery set with hand-coloured pictures of Christopher Robin, Pooh and friends, as a gift for a young Princess Elizabeth, who is believed to have loved the Winnie-the-Pooh stories as a child.  The 1926 A. A. Milne book, Teddy Bear and the Other Songs from When We Were Very Young, was also dedicated to Princess Elizabeth upon her birth when it was published - though the new adventure is the first time the much-loved bear has 'met' Her Majesty in one of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Nicole Pearson, Creative Director at Egmont Publishing, comments, "We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate The Queen's birthday in the same year that marks Pooh's 90^th year in Hundred Acre Wood but with this lovely royal adventure. This is a celebration of two very British icons that have been part of our British heritage for 90 years."

Winnie-the-Pooh and the Royal Birthday: 

Narrated by Jim Broadbent

Written by Jane Riordan, Egmont Publishing

Illustrated by Mark Burgess, after the style of E. H. Shepherd

Download the illustrated ebook and watch the animated story for free at http://www.Disney.co.uk/WinnieRoyalBirthday

Notes to Editors: 

About Winnie The-Pooh 

Winnie-the-Pooh is the world's most famous bear, and has been beloved by children around the world for almost 90 years. He appears in two storybooks - Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner - and two poetry collections - When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six - written by A. A. Milne and definitively illustrated by E. H. Shepard. With a rich storytelling heritage, the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood represent friendship, simple joys and the curious and gentle nature of a child's imagination. For more information go to: http://www.disney.co.uk/disney-baby/winnie-the-pooh/.

Readers can look forward to The Best Bear in All the World, an anthology of four stories, which will be published in October 2016 to mark the 90th anniversary of the first publication of Winnie-the-Pooh. Mark Burgess will illustrate the text in the style of original illustrator E H Shepard and four authors - Paul Bright, Jeanne Willis, Kate Saunders and Brian Sibley - will write the stories. For more information about the Winnie-the-Pooh books visit: egmont.co.uk/pooh.