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“… Most of you are probably not the intended reader for your pet book. Those working on children’s books are not children themselves …” Oh, but I am the intended reader of The House at Pooh Corner — and I have been since 1960, when I turned four and the book was first read to me … Read more

Alan Alexander Milne and Sir Ernest Howard Shepard generated opportunities for their readers and their read-to’s (or their read-along-withs) to transcend the printed page altogether and to enter that fantastical realm — some of them for life, or longer in the memories of others. ~ The endpapers at the front and back of The House at Pooh … Read more

This delightful and compact volume — 1928’s The House at Pooh Corner, written by British poet, playwright, and children’s book author Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne — is very visual. That may sound patently silly, as most every book* is “visual,” comprising symbols and images that convey the book’s content and messages.  But The House at Pooh Corner … Read more

By John F Ward This copy of The House at Pooh Corner is rare. Published in London in 1928, it’s a first trade edition released in the author’s native land — among the first copies printed for sale to the general public. Plus, it’s signed by A.A. Milne, also author of three previous Winnie-the-Pooh books, … Read more