The Pooh Gift Box - When We Were Very Young; Now We Are Six; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner - Hardcover

Milne, A. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0416264700 ISBN 13: 9780416264708

Publisher: Heinemann Young Books, 1989

Synopsis

In original red cloth binding with cover illustrations and gilt titles on spine. The cover is faded and sunned, but overall the book is clean and tight, the illustrations by E H Shepard are bright, the colours are still vivid. What do Tiggers like to eat best? Who bounces Eeyore into the river? What happens to Owl's house one windy day? discover the advetures of Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo.

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Review

This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by A.A. Milne. Although many of the rhymes refer to times past--not many of today's children have a nurse to look after them--the humour and simplicity of the rhymes make them as popular now as when they were first written. Accompanied by E.H. Shepard's original illustrations in colour, this is a handy volume to have on standby for reading to young children. --Philippa Reece

About the Author

A.A. 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. Pooh he saw as a pleasant sideline to his main career as a playwright and regular scribe for the satirical literary magazine, Punch.

Writing was very much the dominant feature of A.A. (Alan Alexander)'s life. He joined the staff of Punch in 1906, and became Assistant Editor. 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!).

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. More poems followed in Now We Are Six (1927) and Pooh returned in The House at Pooh Corner (1928). 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.

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. Nevertheless, he published three volumes of his reminiscences before his death in 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann Young Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0416264700
• ISBN 13: 9780416264708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Shepard E. H.