Winnie-the-Pooh Complete x30 Slipcase - Hardcover

A. A. Milne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405255498 ISBN 13: 9781405255493

Publisher: Dean & Son, 2010

Synopsis

Winnie the Pooh Complete Collection 30 Books Box Set Titles in the Set Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees, Pooh Goes Visiting & Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle, Owl becomes and author, 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, Eeyore loses a tail, 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, Eeyore finds the Wolery, Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, Pooh's Poems, Christopher Robin returns to the Forest, Rabbit organises almost everything, The Spelling Bee, Piglet meets a Heffalump, It Stops raining for ever, Pooh goes in search of honey, Everybody learns something, The Game of Cricket, Tigger Dreams of Africa, The Harvest Festival

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Review:

When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."

Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

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. Pooh he saw as a pleasant sideline to his main career as a playwright and regular scribe for the satirical literary magazine, Punch. Writing was very much the dominant feature of A.A. (Alan Alexander)'s life. He joined the staff of Punch in 1906, and became Assistant Editor. In the course of two decades he fought in the First World War, wrote some 18 plays and three novels, and fathered a son, Christopher Robin Milne, in 1920 (although he described the baby as being more his wife's work than his own!). 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dean & Son
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1405255498
• ISBN 13: 9781405255493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 840