If you want to visit the real Winnie the Pooh and friends, they're just a hop, skip and jump away at the 5th Avenue New York Public Library. Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet and Kanga moved in to their renovated space earlier this week, and ScoutingNY has a little bit of background on how they ended up there (previously they had been at the Donnell Library Center in Midtown). These are the original stuffed animals given to Christopher Robin Milne (pictured here) by his father A.A. Milne. "One day, Christopher's father, A.A. Milne, and an artist named Ernest H. Shepard, decided that these animals, and two other imaginary friends, Owl and Rabbit, would make fine characters in a bedtime story." Now anyone can visit the plush muses, who are "as happy as when they lived in the 100 Acre Wood."
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