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Pooh's Original Hundred-Acre Wood Map Sells for Auction Record

The original map of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by artist E.H. Shepard was bought for a record-breaking 430,000 pounds ($570,137) on Tuesday, auctioneers Sotheby's said. The map for A.A. Milne's children's classic, completed in 1926, broke the record for the amount offered for any book illustration at auction, it added. Unseen for nearly half a century, the map easily surpassed its pre-sale estimate of 100,000 to 150,000 pounds. Featuring on the opening...


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