#children literature - A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh

[laurenillustrated]

Christopher Robin and friends playing in the autumn leaves 🍁

My favorite time of the year! 🍂

[inlovewithquotes]

“Today was a difficult day,” said Pooh. There was a pause.

“Do you want to talk about it?” asked Piglet.

“No,” said Pooh after a bit. “No, I don’t think I do.”

“That’s okay,” said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.

“What are you doing?” asked Pooh.

“Nothing, really,” said Piglet. “Only, I know what difficult days are like. I quite often don’t feel like talking about it on my difficult days either.”

“But goodness,” continued Piglet. “Difficult days are so much easier when you know you’ve got someone there for you. And I’ll always be here for you, Pooh.”

And as Pooh sat there, working through in his head his difficult day, while the solid, reliable Piglet sat next to him quietly, swinging his little legs….he thought that his best friend had never been more right.

-Winnie The Pooh

[psychedelic-charm]

Halfway Down

Halfway down the stairs Is a stair Where i sit. There isn't any Other stair Quite like It. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair Where I always Stop.

Halfway up the stairs Isn't up And isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, It isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head: "It isn't really Anywhere! It's somewhere else Instead!"

-A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

[everythingilearned]

[disneybooklist]

Winnie the Pooh and the honey tree (1966)

Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926)

[theatrepup]

Here’s my Brian Jones Bear Brick action figure celebrating Winnie the Pooh Day! 🥰

[avokado-the-great]

Finished it:

from ml.books

[waywordsstudio]

13 Days of Halloween: "Winnie the Pooh" Review by A. A. Milne -

Wait, why are you reviewing this story for your Halloween Books to Film series? Oh, no. You're not going to . . . .

[nickyfrancis24]

Winnie the Pooh – A.A.Milne

Winnie the Pooh – A.A.Milne Title: Winnie the PoohAuthor: A.A.MilnePublisher: October 1, 2001 by Dutton JuvenileGenres: Children, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Animals, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Picture Books, Young Adult, Juvenile More books by A.A.Milne My Review: “Must read book for every parent and their kids.”“Keeps you laughing and smiling the whole time. It’s just amazing!!!” Read more:…

[marshmyers]

Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play. The Hundred Acre Wood — the setting for Winnie-the-Pooh's adventures--was inspired by Ashdown Forest, a wildlife haven spanning more than 6,000 acres in southeast England. In the pages of this enchanting book, you can visit the ancient black walnut tree on the edge of the forest that became Pooh's house, go deep into the pine trees to find Poohsticks Bridge, and climb up to the top of the enchanted Galleons Lap, where Pooh says goodbye to Christopher Robin. You will discover how Milne's childhood connection with nature and his role as a father influenced his famous stories and how his close collaboration with illustrator E. H. Shepard brought those stories to life. 

https://bookshop.org/a/95413/9781604695991

[laurenillustrated]

Winnie-the-Pooh 🍯

[libertyreads]

Book Review #43 of 2023--

Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne. Rating: 2 stars.

Read on April 15th.

I still feel like it was a mistake to include these last two volumes as part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series since both are just silly children’s rhymes. I adore Winnie-the-Pooh so much and have loved that little bear since I was too young to remember seeing it for the first time. So, I really cannot express my disappointment with these last two volumes. This one (book 4) does a slightly better job at including characters the readers already love. Even if they weren’t in the poems/rhymes themselves, the character were in the drawings done by Ernest H. Shepard here and there. I wish we had gotten two more volumes of Winnie-the-Pooh stories instead. But now that I’ve finished the whole series I’m glad to have read it and I’m glad to have the hard back editions I found when on vacation this week.

[psychedelic-charm]

The Four Friends

Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow, Leonard was a lion with a six foot tail, George was a goat, and his beard was yellow, And James was a very small snail.

Leonard had a stall, and a great big strong one, Earnest had a manger, and its walls were thick, George found a pen, but I think it was the wrong one, And James sat down on a brick

Earnest started trumpeting, and cracked his manger, Leonard started roaring, and shivered his stall, James gave the huffle of a snail in danger And nobody heard him at all.

Earnest started trumpeting and raised such a rumpus, Leonard started roaring and trying to kick, James went a journey with the goat's new compass And he reached the end of his brick.

Ernest was an elephant and very well intentioned, Leonard was a lion with a brave new tail, George was a goat, as I think I have mentioned, But James was only a snail.

-A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #WinnieThePoohDay! A. A. Milne was born #OTD in 1882.

Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends, c. 1921, on display at the New York Public Library

“On his first birthday, in 1921, Christopher Robin Milne received a teddy bear purchased from Harrods department store in London. Christened Winnie-the-Pooh, the bear soon acquired several now-familiar companions: Beyore, Piglet, Kanga, Tigger, and Roo. (Roo was eventually lost in an apple orchard.) In time, Christopher's playmates would come to inspire several classic works such as Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), all written by his father, A.A. Milne.

Brought to the United States in 1947, the toys remained with Milne's American publisher, E.P. Dutton, until 1987, when they were donated to the Library. Today they stand as a beloved centerpiece of the Library's renowned collection of children's literature, continuing to delight and inspire both the young and young at heart.”

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Winnie-The-Pooh by Travis Dandro and A.A. Milne. Cover by Dandro. Out in April.

"The beloved children's classic appears as a graphic novel for the first time! Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize winner Travis Dandro takes a left turn from his detailed autobiography and returns with the charming tales of Winnie-the-Pooh. In 2015, the A. A. Milne childrens' classic, long since viewed as the benchmark for intelligent and whimsical storytelling, slipped into the public domain. Dandro expands the world of Hundred Acre Wood in all directions, creating stunning full-page tableaus where Pooh and everybody's favorite characters - Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, and of course, Christopher Robin - to romp, argue, fail, and love. Indebted to the unforgettable pen-and-ink drawings of E. H. Shephard, this addition to the canon of timeless literature for all ages encompasses all of Winnie-the-Pooh's original adventures, alongside a brand-new story from Dandro created exclusively for this volume."

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(Context: @moonleet’s AN on this fic of his)

[W]hat was ur childhood favorite when it comes to "classic" literature?

I don’t actually remember many of the “classic” books I read as a kid (literally just Wind in the Willows and Black Beauty), so deviating slightly from the original prompt, I’m making a list of books for headspace. It’s based on either what I remember liking (or am told I liked) at various ages or what I’ve found I like in headspace currently.

~2-4yo: Headspace discoveries or parental hearsay (often too young to remember)

Basically any of the Winnie the Pooh stories (A.A. Milne). I’m told I wasn’t hugely into them as a kid but that changes in headspace.

The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams). Don’t think I was read this as a kid but with how much I go on about Norrell, is me having latched onto this in headspace a surprise? (no).

The Gruffalo (Julia Donaldson). Haven’t verified this one, but I’m told I absolutely adored it as a kid.

The Frog & Toad series (Arnold Lobel). Haven’t verified, but I do actually remember this one so that’s a good sign.

~5-7yo: I can actually remember my likes now (no headspace discoveries currently).

The Junie B. Jones series (Barbara Park). Haven’t verified this, but I remember loving these.

The Series of Unfortunate Events series (Lemony Snicket). Same thing as Junie B. Jones

Swindle (Gordon Korman). Haven’t verified this but I enjoyed reading it a second time back in like 7th grade after loving it the first time in 2nd grade so it’s at least more likely than the first two. (Also I found out this is a series looking up the author’s name so uh. The headspace reading list begins, I guess)

Any regressed headspace:

The Magic Treehouse series (Mary Pope Osborne). This was the first series I definitely remember reading as a kid, and my folks say they used them as bedtime stories before that.

Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) probably. I read it when I was in like 8th grade but I remember thinking the length was the main reason it was marked as an upper-grade book (the thing’s like 300 pages iirc).

Any of Shel Silverstein’s children’s-lit poetry. I think I found it when I was like 6 but it could’ve been introduced earlier; in any case it feels like I’d enjoy it even in younger headspaces.