Pooh Two

From The Scotsman:

In the 80 years that have passed since AA Milne last wrote about him, generations of young readers must have wondered what happened to Winnie the Pooh and his young owner.

In October, they will be able to find out, the publishers Egmont announced yesterday, with the publication of the first authorised sequel to Milne's books, Return to Hundred Acre Wood.

The amazing story of Argentinian streetboy saved by gang of wild cats.

From the Daily Mail:

A young boy was kept alive by wild cats while living rough on the streets, it emerged today. The one-year-old ...was discovered by police in Misiones, in Argentina, surrounded by eight of the animals.

The cats snuggled up with him during freezing nights that would otherwise have killed him, doctors believe. The boy was seen eating scraps foraged by his feline friends while they licked him. And they hissed as police approached the child.

Officer Alicia Lorena Lindgvist said: ‘I was walking and noticed a gang of cats sitting very close together. It is unusual to see so many like that so I went for a closer look and that’s where I saw him. The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty. When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the boy warm while he slept.’

The officer, who noticed scraps of food near the boy in the Christ King district, also told The Sun: ‘The cats knew he was fragile and needed protecting.’

Police have found the boy’s father who is homeless and said he had lost the boy several days ago while out collecting cardboard to sell. He told officers cats had always been protective of his son.

Many observers have noted the similarity between this story and that portrayed in the 1967 Disney movie 'The Jungle Book', in which a young boy, Mowgli, is raised in the jungle by wolves and is befriended by an amiable bear named Baloo.

Hat tip: Chris

Pooh art continues to defy credit crunch

Following our earlier report of an original Pooh drawing fetching a cool £31 200 at auction, new records have been set as "He Went On Tracking, And Piglet ... Ran After Him" went under the hammer at £115,250.

Update: Sell shares and buy Pooh!

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?' " Winnie The Pooh

Amazing Pooh News! The Pooh sketch we reported as being up for auction with an expected selling price of £20 000 has sold for a whopping, credit crunch busting £31 200!

Tiggers don't like hunny - but £20 k sure is sweet

The BBC reports:

An original sketch of favourite AA Milne character Winnie the Pooh, featuring Tigger and Piglet, is expected to fetch £20,000 at auction.

It's no surprise that punters are set to swarm over this item - EH Shepard's 'Tiggers don't like honey' will bee a fine addition to any collection.

Let's hope the auctioneers don't get stung by the Credit Crunch, Animal News couldn't bear to see Tigger being undervalued.

Hollywood goes for the bear necessities in Yogi movie

Excited fans of cartoon bear news from Yellowstone Park to the Black Forest wept for joy upon hearing that Yogi is to appear on the big screen.

Pooh - Jap's a Fair Cop

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police have arrested a 20-year-old man who attacked and robbed two people after they stared at his Winnie-the-Pooh costume, officials said on Tuesday.

Masayuki Ishikawa was hanging out on a Tokyo street corner after midnight last month while wearing the cuddly costume, accompanied by two friends dressed as a mouse and a panther, when he took offence at being stared at, police said.

"It's uncommon to see people dressed up like this, so the victims were watching them. Then the perpetrator came up and said 'What are you staring at?'" a police spokesman said.

Ishikawa and his friends beat up the two victims and stole $160 from them, the spokesman said, adding the group had apparently donned the unusual garb because they had run out of clean clothes.