With alll this pooh about Winnie the Pooh, there is a terrific children's
book, Pauline Clarke's The Twelve and the Genii (original title as published
in Great Britain) or The Return of the Twelves (American title), dealing with
cultural patrimony. The book, originally published in 1962, I believe is still
in print and available in paperback. It won the Carnegie Medal (equivalent to
the American Newbery  Medal) and the German Jugend Buchpreis.

As a teaser, the book deals with soldiers that once belonged to Branwell
Bronte.

Barbara Fleisher Zucker