Rare Pooh drawings up for auction

The Tigger drawing was never included in the 1958 volume

A pair of Winnie the Pooh drawings are expected to fetch up to £30,000 each when they go on sale at a London auction house later this month.

The coloured crayon drawings by Ernest H Shepard - Tiggers Don't Like Honey and Pooh Visiting in Owl's Parlour - will be auctioned at Bonhams on 22 May.

Tiggers Don't Like Honey was drawn for the 1958 edition of AA Milne's The World of Pooh, but never published.

The Owl illustration was published in Methuen's 1929 Winnie the Pooh.

Shepard's sketches were exhibited at London's V&A Museum in 1969

Both drawings are being sold by the same private collector.

Bonhams' Modern Pictures and Illustrations sale also includes four studies by Pooh illustrator Shepard for the AA Milne poem Missing.

The sketches, which previously belonged to the artist's daughter-in-law before entering a private collection, are estimated to fetch up to £6,000.

Other classic children's illustrations to be auctioned include images of Captain Pugwash, Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat and a scene from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.