
The world of Pooh is a world of enchantment. It is a world forever fixed in the minds and hearts of countless children . . . a world where Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and the others, share their unforgettable adventures with Christopher Robin. As he wanders through the pages of this book m Pooh remains the whimsical philosopher, the staunch friend, hampered at times by his over-weight but accepting the futility of trying to control his appetite. Although he persists in thinking of himself as “a bear of very little brain,” the reader soon discovers that Pooh’s whimsey leads inevitably to wisdom. For many years A.A. Milne’s inimitable characters delightfully represented in E.H. Shepard’s celebrated illustrations, have frolicked through two classics of childhood: Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. Now these books are here presented in one never-to-be-forgotten volume, and to make this a truly memorable occasion, Mr. Shepard has added a whole new series of pictures in colour to the familiar black and white drawings. To see Pooh and his friends, the forest and their homes in colour is a pleasure that no one is too young or too old to enjoy. “Silly old bear,” “the best bear in the world” —here comes Pooh walking through the forest, humming to himself. Let us all join him in the song: Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear! Sing Ho! for a Pooh! L
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Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919. After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff." 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 by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted". He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.