Winnie the Pooh sequel

After almost 90 years a sequel to AA Milne's The House at Pooh Corner has been authorised by the trustees of the Pooh Properties. It is scheduled to be published later this year.

In Return to the Hundred Acre Wood author David Benedictus picks up from the ending of the last Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner, in which Christopher Robin is growing up and heading away to school.

Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner was first published in 1926 and 1928. Milne wrote the books for his son Christopher Robin. Pooh was his teddy bear.

Waterstone's is already drooling over a massive Christmas 2009. Let's hope that it does not turn out to be depressingly lame like the last James Bond by Sebastian Faulks, or The Tales of the Beedle Bard.