Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh is a children's book written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. It was published in 1926 and is a collection of stories about a teddy bear named Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo.

This was the first story collection centered on Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne published a second, The House at Pooh Corner, in 1928.

Milne drew several characters from the stuffed toys of his son, Christopher Robin, while Shepard created the illustrations that helped define the Hundred Acre Wood and its inhabitants.

Across ten chapters, Pooh searches for honey, tracks a supposed Woozle with Piglet, finds Eeyore’s missing tail, encounters an imagined Heffalump, and joins Christopher Robin’s expedition to the North Pole.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.