POOH GOES VISITING and other stories
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story 5 In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
Story 6 In which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh Party, and we say good-bye
PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP and other storiesStory 1 In which Piglet meets a Heffalump
Story 2 In which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents
Story 3 In which Kanga and Baby Roo come to the forest, and Piglet has a bath
Story 4 In which Christopher Robin leads an exploration to the North Pole
A. A. Milne was born in England in 1882, the third and youngest son of London schoolteachers. As a boy he wrote verses, parodies, and short humorous pieces for his school’s paper. He went on to study at Cambridge. In 1903 he left school to write. Before long he was supporting himself on his earnings, and became an editor at
Punch magazine. In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt. He began his military service in 1915 in Europe. During this time he wrote three plays, all of which were produced on the London stage. Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920. It was Christopher’s toy bear, pig, donkey, tiger, and kangaroo that became the inspiration for the famous Pooh books. A. A. Milne wrote more plays, a novel, his autobiography, and political nonfiction, although he is best remembered for
Winnie-the-Pooh,
The House at Pooh Corner,
When We Were Very Young, and
Now We Are Six. Milne died in 1956.
Stephen Fry is an English actor and author. As well as being the bestselling author of four novels,
The Stars’ Tennis Balls,
Making History,
The Hippopotamus, and
The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography,
Moab is My Washpot, he has played Peter in
Peter’s Friends, Wilde in the film
Wilde, Jeeves in the television series
Jeeves & Wooster and Laurie in the television series
Fry & Laurie.
Judi Dench is an English actress and author. Dench has been a mainstay in film and television since the eighties, with starring roles in
Masterpiece Theatre and the
James Bond series.
Michael Williams is the bestselling author of
On the Slow Train,
On the Slow Train Again, and
Steaming to Victory. He is a journalist, academic, and author who writes, blogs, and broadcasts on railways and other subjects for many media outlets, including the
Independent, the
BBC, the
Daily Mail, the
Daily Telegraph, and the
New Statesman, as well as the specialist railway press. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. He lives with his family in Camden Town, London, not far from St Pancras—Britain's most splendid railway station.
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, OBE, is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Anderson in
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a British sitcom. His film appearances include
A Fish Called Wanda and
Tomorrow Never Dies.
