
This beautiful new edition, re-designed for Pooh's 90th anniversary, brings together four volumes in one stunning gift book with a slipcase: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends Piglet, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, he's never far from an adventure. Shepard (Illustrator) 4.48 44,397 ratings499 reviews With illustrations by E.H.Shephard. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh is nothing less than a true children's classic. Winnie the Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems A.A. Shepard went on to draw the original illustrations to accompany Milnes classics, earning him the name the man who drew Pooh.9781405284578 Winnie-the-Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems 136.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction /shop/books/childrens-books/fiction/classics /shop/books/childrens-books A. Nevertheless, he published three volumes of his reminiscences before his death in 1996.Į.H. In one way, Christopher Robin turned out to be more famous than his father, though he became uncomfortable with his fame as he got older, preferring to avoid the literary limelight and run a bookshop in Dartmouth. After that, in spite of enthusiastic demand, Milne declined to write any more children's stories as he felt that, with his son growing up, they would now only be copies based on a memory. More poems followed in Now We Are Six (1927) and Pooh returned in The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Observations of little Christopher led Milne to produce a book of children's poetry, When We Were Very Young, in 1924, and in 1926 the seminal Winnie-the-Pooh. In the course of two decades he fought in the First World War, wrote some 18 plays and three novels, and fathered a son, Christopher Robin Milne, in 1920 (although he described the baby as being more his wife's work than his own!). He joined the staff of Punch in 1906, and became Assistant Editor. Writing was very much the dominant feature of A.A. Pooh he saw as a pleasant sideline to his main career as a playwright and regular scribe for the satirical literary magazine, Punch. Milne grew up in a school - his parents ran Henley House in Kilburn, for young boys - but never intended to be a children's writer. Winnie The Pooh Stories & Poems Complete Children Set Hardback By A A MilneĪ.A.
