The Christopher Robin Collection: Tales Of A Boy And His Bear (Winnie The Pooh)

Author: A. A. Milne

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9781405288019
  • : Egmont Books, Limited
  • : Egmont Books, Limited
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  • : August 2017
  • : 250mm X 200mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : July 2021
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  • : E H Shepard
  • : English
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Barcode 9781405288019
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Description

Join Christopher Robin on his adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh and their friends from the Hundred Acre Wood. This charming collection of stories and poems, selected from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six, tells extraordinary tales of a Boy and his Bear, accompanied by E.H.Shepard's beautiful illustrations. Milne's classic children's stories - featuring Piglet, Eeyore and, of course, Pooh himself - are both heart-warming and funny, teaching lessons of friendship and reflecting the power of a child's imagination like no other story before or since.

Author description

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