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Original Winnie the Pooh sketch under the hammer
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LONDON - An original drawing of A.A. Milne's popular children's characters Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Piglet is expected to fetch up to 20,000 pounds when it goes under the hammer on Tuesday. The oval pencil sketch by E.H. Shepard, one of children's literature's most famous illustrators, shows Pooh dipping his paw into a pot of honey while sitting at a kitchen table as Piglet and Tigger look on. The drawing is a larger version of an illustration entitled "Tiggers don't like honey" which appeared in Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner," one of four books he wrote about the bear in the 1920s. Other works by Shepard which are on sale at Bonhams auction house include a first sketch for Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows," depicting Rat and Mole lounging with a picnic on the riverbank. It appeared in the published book with the caption: "Now pitch in, old fellow! and the Mole was indeed very glad to obey" and is expected to fetch between 7,000 and 10,000 pounds. "The illustrations are essential. Visually, that's what is kept in people's imaginations," Bonhams' book specialist Luke Batterham told BBC News. "The images are constantly in the public's mind because of all the spin-offs, but you can't beat the original drawings." Other Shepard illustrations at the auction include sketches for Milne's poem "Buckingham Palace," including one which shows Christopher Robin saluting a palace guard and drawings he made for the political magazine Punch. Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Steve Addison
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