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Today the New York Public Library’s Children’s Center at 42nd Street unveiled a new Winnie-the-Pooh mural, which serves as the backdrop for the display of the stuffed menagerie that inspired A. A. Milne’s books. Originally owned by Milne’s equally famous son, the real-life Christopher Robin, the toys have been in Manhattan since 1947 and were donated to the library in 1987. Joining them on display through the end of the year is a soft sculpture of Lottie the Otter, a new character featured in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the first authorized sequel to Milne’s work in more than 80 years. Penguin Young Readers Group, the book’s publisher, describes Lottie as “smart, elegant and confident.” Sounds like a New Yorker to us.
Another Brit-born New Yorker, prodigiously talented Jim Dale (Grammy Award–winner for the Harry Potter audiobooks, among myriad other accolades), read from the new book at NYPL’s launch event for the sequel. Check him out:
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