A.A. Milne’s four children’s books illustrated by E.H. Shepard—two of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and two of poems in “When We Were Very Young” (1924) and “Now We Are Six” (1927)—were immediately ...
Just over a century ago, the satirical writer and playwright A.A. Milne, suffering from the after-effects of fighting in the trenches of World War I, started writing some poems for his only child, ...