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Pooh Bear & Friends in the Afterlife

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Pet Blog Post #4: Afterlife Investigating the materials and construction of Winnie-The-Pooh through my first blog post, I quickly recognized that the book is in impeccable condition. The pages are consistently smooth and cleanly white, and despite some page corners being slightly wrinkled, perhaps due to water, heat, or poor handling/storage, I noticed no other … Read more

Word & Image (& Hunny)

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Pet Blog Post #3: Word and Image Illustrations appear frequently throughout Winnie-The-Pooh. On average, it seems illustrations are present on about every other page, and a reader will not encounter more than two pages of full text before seeing the next illustration. The illustrations work with the text and take on a more narrative role, … Read more

Pooh’s Pages

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Pet Blog Post #2: mise-en-page/mise-en-texte As explored in my earlier blog post, Winnie-The-Pooh is a smaller book – perhaps not pocket-size, but certainly easy to hold in one’s hands, especially the hands of a child. A given page is 18.75cm in length and 12.5cm in width. The text is written in one column per page. … Read more

Winnie-The-Pooh: Materials & Construction

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Rest assured the trees at 100 Aker Wood were untouched in the construction of this book. As Pooh Bear is one of my favorite childhood characters, I have recently adopted Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, decorations by E. H. Shepard. The book is a first edition, published by Methuen in 1926, and part of the four-volume … Read more