The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems (Winnie-The-Pooh - Classic Editions) - Hardcover

Milne, A. A.; Shepard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0416199615 ISBN 13: 9780416199611

Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Every one of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poems in one stunning gift book. Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. As warm, funny and enchanting as he was nearly 90 years ago, the "bear of very little brains" is truly one of the world's classic children's characters. In this beautiful slip-cased volume, all four of A.A. Milne's books - Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six - are accompanied by E.H. Shepard's iconic illustrations. Share Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and all their friends for generations to come with this gift book worth cherishing.

About this title

About the Author

A.A. Milne A.A. Milne is quite simply one of the most famous children's authors of all time. He created Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo based on the real nursery toys played with by his son, Christopher Robin. And those characters not only became the stars of his classic children's books, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, and his poetry for children, they have also been adapted for film, TV and the stage. Through his writings for Punch magazine, A.A. Milne met E.H. Shepard. Shepard went on to draw the original illustrations to accompany Milne's classics, earning him the name "the man who drew Pooh".

From the Back Cover

AA Milne, born in 1882, based the characters of Pooh Bear, Eeyore the Donkey, Piglet, Tigger, Kanger and Roo on his son, Christopher Robin's real nursery toys. The Milne family live in Ashdown Forest and the stories of their adventures are based there. By the time his first book of poems for children were published in 1924, he was already an accomplished dramatist and novelist, and previously he had also published humorous writings for Punch Magazine, including the poem "Teddy Bear" (eventually published in "When We Were Very Young")

A Bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise, Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not to be wondered at; He gets what exercise he can, By falling off the Ottoman, But generally seems to lack, The energy to clamber back...

EH Shepard, born in 1879, while being remembered as "the man who drew Pooh" was an acclaimed artist in his own right and also worked on Punch magazine as a cartoonist and illustrator. His drawings and illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh are classic and are known and loved the world over.

Edition details

• Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0416199615
• ISBN 13: 9780416199611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432