Winnie-the-Pooh

Ages 5 to 9

“Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.”Curl up with a true children’s classic by reading A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh with iconic decorations by E. H. Shepard.

Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very little brain, but thanks to his friends Piglet, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, he’s never far from an adventure. In this story Pooh gets into a tight place, nearly catches a Woozle and heads off on an ‘expotition’ to the North Pole with the other animals.In this stunning edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne’s world-famous story is once again brought to life by E. H. Shepard’s decorations. Heart-warming and funny, Milne’s masterpiece reflects the power of a child’s imagination like no other story before or since.Do you own all the classic Pooh titles?Winnie-the-PoohThe House at Pooh CornerWhen We Were Very YoungNow We Are SixReturn to the Hundred Acre WoodThe Best Bear in All the World

About the Author

A. A. Milne was born in London in 1882 and later became a highly successful writer of plays, poems and novels. He based Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and friends on the real nursery toys of his son Christopher Robin and published the first of their adventures together in 1926. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into seventy-two languages.E. H. Shepard was born in London in 1879. He was a cartoonist and artist, and went on to draw the original decorations to accompany Milne’s classic stories, earning him the name ‘the man who drew Pooh’.