--- description: In honor of the 90th anniversary of A.A. Milne's first Winnie-the-Pooh book, a new face is set to appear in the Hundred Acre Wood: Penguin. title: Winnie-the-Pooh's New Friend Penguin Is Making His Debut image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Winnie-the-Pooh's New Friend Penguin Is Making His Adorable Debut  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Sep 19, 2016 8:40 PM CUT  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Sep 19, 2016 8:40 PM CUT In honor of the 90th anniversary of [A.A. Milne’s](http://time.com/4070681/winnie-the-pooh-history/ "undefined") first [_Winnie-the-Pooh_](http://time.com/4349690/prince-george-winnie-the-pooh-queen-elizabeth/ "undefined") book, a new face is set to appear in the Hundred Acre Wood. Penguin will join Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and the rest of Pooh’s animal friends in the upcoming _The Best Bear in All the World_, according to [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/19/winnie-the-pooh-penguin-new-character "undefined"). Inspired by an old photo in which Milne and his son — the real-life Christopher Robin — can be seen playing with both a stuffed penguin and the teddy bear that became Winnie-the-Pooh, author Brian Sibley will introduce the Antarctic bird in a story titled “Winter: in which Penguin arrives.” > [](https://twitter.com/EW/status/777886391283937280) “While pondering what other toys Christopher Robin might have owned but which were never written about, I remembered seeing a photograph of father and son playing on the nursery floor with Winnie-the-Pooh and – a penguin!,” Sibley said. “The thought of Pooh encountering a penguin seemed no more outlandish than his meeting a kangaroo and a tiger in Sussex wood, so I started thinking about what might have happened if, on a rather snowy day, Penguin had found his way to Pooh Corner…” > [](https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/777945553145430017) _The Best Bear in All the World_ will be released Oct. 25. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4500158/winnie-the-pooh-penguin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4500158/winnie-the-pooh-penguin/"},"headline":"Winnie-the-Pooh's New Friend Penguin Is Making His Adorable Debut","datePublished":"2016-09-19T20:40:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:44.464Z","description":"Welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood","url":"https://time.com/4500158/winnie-the-pooh-penguin/","keywords":["Books","Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4500158/winnie-the-pooh-penguin/","name":"Winnie-the-Pooh's New Friend Penguin Is Making His Adorable Debut"}}]}] ```