News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

IT'S one of the best known children's stories and now the only photograph of the toy bear which inspired AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh has been discovered in a family archive.

The Daily Mail says that the photograph, taken around 1913, shows the two young children of the illustrator hired by author Milne to create the fictional bear, standing next to one of their teddy bears called Growler, which was the inspiration for the initial drawings of Winnie the Pooh.