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The Real Woods Behind Winnie-The-Pooh's Forest

NPR
Published January 18, 2016 at 1:30 PM PST

Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood is based on a real forest in the English countryside. NPR's Ari Shapiro visits Ashdown Forest with Kathryn Aalto, author of The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 26, 2015.)

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