Whether you're 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages. Pooh ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage. Milne, published in 1926.Milne wrote the episodic stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and its sequel, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), for his young son, Christopher Robin, whose toy animals were the basis for many of the characters and whose name was used for the young boy who appears in the tales as the benign master of the animals.

The nation's favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for 95 years. Winnie-the-Pooh, collection of children’s stories by A.A. This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by Milne - as popular now as when they were first written.įeaturing E.H.Shepard's original decorations, this collection is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children's poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we've come to expect from Milne's favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain. A 'juvenile meditation', Zena Sutherland comments in Children & Books that both the poem and Ernest Shepard 's illustration 'has caught the mood of suspended action that is always overtaking small children on stairs. Milne, included in the 1924 collection When We Were Very Young. Shepard For nearly a century, children and adults alike have delighted. Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /mln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various childrens poems. Halfway Down (poem) ' Halfway Down ' is a poem by A.A. Whether you’re 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages.'They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.'Ĭurl up with A.A.Milne's classic book of poetry for children, When We Were Very Young. When We Were Creator of Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrations by Ernest H.

The nation’s favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for 95 years. This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by Milne – as popular now as when they were first written.įeaturing E.H.Shepard’s original decorations, this collection is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children’s poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we’ve come to expect from Milne’s favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain. “They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.”Ĭurl up with A.A.Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, When We Were Very Young.

Winnie the pooh when we were very young