Children's Books
The Europa theme this year is Children's Literature and Royal Mail is celebrating these events with a set of six Stamps and a special Miniature Sheet depicting characters and text from the Winnie-the-Pooh story by A A Milne, featuring original illustrations by E H Shepard.
1st Class – Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin
Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin illustration taken from A.A. Milne’s book of verse Now we are Six
58p – Winnie the Pooh and Piglet
Pooh and Piglet walk off into the wind on their way to Kanga’s house in ‘A very grand thing’ from The House at Pooh Corner
60p – Winnie the Pooh and Rabbit
Pooh informs Rabbit about the ‘Expotition to the North Pole’ from Winnie-the-Pooh.
67p – Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore
Pooh sings ‘Cottleston Pie’ to Eeyore from ‘Eeyore has a birthday’ in Winnie-the-Pooh.
88p – Winnie the Pooh and friends
Pooh is joined by Rabbit, Kanga and Roo, Owl and Piglet for a Pooh party in ‘We say good bye’ from Winnie-the-Pooh.
97p – Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Pooh discovers that Tiggers don’t like honey in ‘Tigger has breakfast’ from The House at Pooh Corner
The Winnie-the-Pooh Miniature Sheet Stamps
| 1st – First class inland letter rate |
Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin |
| 60p – Europe up to 10gm |
Christopher Robin reads to Winnie the Pooh |
| 88p – Europe up to 40 gm |
Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin set sail |
| 97p – Rest of World airmail up to 20gm |
Christopher Robin pulls on his Wellingtons |
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