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WINNIE-THE-POOH by A. A. Milne

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin

A. A. Milne's Pooh stories have been loved by generations of children ever since they were first published in 1926

In his autobiography, Milne wrote: "The animals in the stories came for the first part from the nursery.

"My collaborator (his wife) had already given them individual voices, their owner by constant affection had given them the twist in their features which denotes character, and Ernest Shepard drew them, as one might say, from the living model."

I have been reading this classic to my granddaughter and have taken the liberty of posting the first chapter on this page.

Chapter 1: in which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees, and the stories begin.

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