Millions of wills including those of Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Alan Turing, and Beatrix Potter are now available online.

Millions of wills including those of Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill, Alan Turing, and Beatrix Potter are now available online.

Winnie-The-Pooh has triumphed over modern titles such as The Gruffalo to be named the best-loved children’s book of the last 150 years.

BACK in 1958, Britain was welcoming everyone, including Paddington Bear, a strange, confused stowaway from "darkest Peru" who had a compulsion for eating marmalade sandwiches.

'Peep Show' star Robert Webb said today he was delighted that reading stories to his children is now also his job after signing up to front a new Disney TV show.

ON THURSDAY March 3, World Book Day will be celebrated all over Ireland and Britain, with promotional events in schools, libraries and bookshops.

Winnie-the-Pooh is at the centre of a legal storm over his adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

A new Winnie-the-Pooh book will be released later this year, more than 80 years after his first adventure.

Affable children’s character Winnie the Pooh has found himself at the centre of a legal battle as a film company takes on Disney for ownership rights to the bear and his friends.

The US Supreme Court has refused to decide whether the granddaughter of AA Milne, the British creator of Winnie the Pooh, can regain control of the copyright for stories featuring the children’s book character.

PAUL Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children’s TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

The popularity of JRR Tolkien’s epic novel The Lord of the Rings appeared stronger than ever today after it was named Britain’s best-loved book in the BBC’s The Big Read poll.

The only known recording of AA Milne reading his children’s classic Winnie The Pooh is being released on CD.

Madonna has said she's never heard of the author Enid Blyton.

Walt Disney is planning major cutbacks in its feature animation unit, with dozens of jobs to be axed and salaries to be slashed by between 30% and 50%.