Winnie the Pooh Best Loved and Favourite Stories - AA Milne New set of 2 hardcover books

WINNIE the POOH

Best-Loved Stories and Favourite Stories

by A.A Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard

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Set of 2 new hardcover books. Each book measures 13 x 16cm. Published 2010, 272 pages and 8 stories in each book, with full-colour illustrations.

Winnie-the-Pooh Best Loved Stories

Collected together in this superb edition are eight of the best-loved tales about Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood. Originally published in 1926 in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, these stories follow the delightful adventures of the world's favourite bear. Read the stories and enjoy all sorts of adventures: from hunting Woozles and catching a Heffalump, to going on an expotition to the North Pole and saving Piglet from the flood.

The stories are:

• Winnie-the-Pooh and some bees
• Pooh goes visiting ... and Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a woozle
• Piglet meets a Heffalump
• Eeyore has a birthday
• Kanga and Baby Roo come to the forest
• An expotition to the North Pole
• Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
• Christopher Robin gives a party

Winnie-the-Pooh Favourite Stories

Collected together in one volume are eight stories about the world's most famous bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. Originally published in 1928 in A.A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner, these enduring stories are brought to life by E.H. Shepherd's classic illustrations. Join Pooh and his friends for more delightful adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood: from building a house for Eeyore and finding a Wolery for Owl, to playing Poohsticks and trying to unbounce Tigger!

The stories are:

• A house is built at Pooh Corner
• Tigger comes to the forest
• A search is organdized
• Tiggers don't climb trees
• Rabbit has a busy day
• Pooh invents a new game
• Tigger is unbounced
• Piglet does a very grand thing

A.A. Milne is renowned worldwide as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and his forest friends. Endearingly portrayed by E.H. Shepherd's original line drawings, Winnie-the-Pooh has become a very famous bear, loved by generations of children all over the world.

About the author

Alan Alexander A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and he died in 1956.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin, after his son, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin's bear, originally named "Edward", was renamed "Winnie-the-Pooh" after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh" comes from a swan called "Pooh". E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler ("a magnificent bear"), as the model. Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress.

About the illustrator

Ernest Howard E. H. Shepard (December 10, 1879 – March 24, 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. He also illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Shepard was recommended to Milne in 1923. Initially, Milne thought Shepard's style was not what he wanted, but used him to illustrate his book of poems When We Were Very Young. Happy with the results, Milne insisted Shepard illustrate Winnie-the-Pooh. Realising his illustrator's contribution to the book's success, Milne generously arranged for Shepard to receive a share of his royalties.

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Wnnie the Pooh Best Loved Stories and Favourite Stories by A A Milne, illustrated by E H Shepherd