This beautiful postcard set includes 100 famous scenes from the Hundred Acre
Wood from the pages of the original books by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. A.
A. Milne's stories about Pooh and his forest friends have been loved by
generations of children and their parents since the publication of
Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. The famous bear truly is The Bear for All Ages.
Author Biography
A.A. Milne grew up in a school – his parents ran Henley House in Kilburn, for
young boys – but never intended to be a children's writer. Pooh he saw as a
pleasant sideline to his main career as a playwright and regular scribe for the
satirical literary magazine, Punch. Writing was very much the dominant feature
of A.A. (Alan Alexander)'s life. He joined the staff of Punch in 1906, and
became Assistant Editor. In the course of two decades he fought in the First
World War, wrote some 18 plays and three novels, and fathered a son,
Christopher Robin Milne, in 1920 (although he described the baby as being more
his wife's work than his own!). Observations of little Christopher led Milne to
produce a book of children's poetry, When We Were Very Young, in 1924, and in
1926 the seminal Winnie-the-Pooh. More poems followed in Now We Are Six (1927)
and Pooh returned in The House at Pooh Corner (1928). After that, in spite of
enthusiastic demand, Milne declined to write any more children's stories as he
felt that, with his son growing up, they would now only be copies based on a
memory. In one way, Christopher Robin turned out to be more famous than his
father, though he became uncomfortable with his fame as he got older, preferring
to avoid the literary limelight and run a bookshop in Dartmouth. Nevertheless,
he published three volumes of his reminiscences before his death in 1996.