friends

This lost sketch that is the first ever depiction of the game Poohsticks by famed illustrator E.H Shepard has been found after 87 years. . It shows Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and Piglet gazing over a wooden bridge after dropping sticks into a river, waiting for them to float into sight on the other side.

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” 

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.” 

― A.A. Milne

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.” 

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie the pooh is a fantastic book  about frienship written by A.A. Milne and beautifully illustrated by artist E.H. Shepard. The book is a testimony of what frienship truely means and how friends indeed are closer than family at times.The real-life inspiration for the book’s setting – a forest that boasted a Heffalump trap and an area marked ‘Nice for Piknicks’ – is said to have been Posingford Bridge in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, where Milne and his son Christopher played in a forest that becam an inspiration and set of the famous .

In tribute to the author, it has since been renamed Poohsticks Bridge.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510891/E-H-Shepards-Winnie-Pooh-sketch-captured-magic-Poohsticks-found.html