While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. 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. Whether you’re 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages.Īlan 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.Ī.

Pooh ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage. Milne’s classic children’s stories – featuring Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and, of course, Pooh himself – are gently humorous while teaching lessons about friendship and kindness. The nation’s favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for over 95 years. They are truly iconic and contributed to him being known as ‘the man who drew Pooh’. This book is all the more special due to E.H.Shepard’s decorations, which are shown in full, glorious colour. 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. This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by Milne – as popular now as when they were first written. “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.

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