How those illustrations came to be, along with that earliest Pooh Bear sketch, appear in The Art of Winnie the Pooh: How E.H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon, available now in the U.K. and in U.S ...

An original black and white sketch of Winnie the Pooh and his good friend Piglet which languished for decades in a drawer is expected to fetch thousands when it goes under the hammer next month ...