A. A. Milne

A.A.Milne was born in London in 1882. He began his literary career as editor of Granta magazine, and was assistant editor of Punch, later becoming a highly successful writer of plays, poems and novels. He based Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo on the real nursery toys of his son Christopher Robin. In 1925, Winnie-the-Pooh made his first appearance in a Christmas story in the London Evening News. The following year, Winnie-the-Pooh was published and was an instant success, as was The House at Pooh Corner, in 1928. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into seventy-two languages.

Books by A. A. Milne

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