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Winnie the Pooh: Eeyore has a Birthday

Winnie the Pooh: Eeyore has a Birthday

Eeyore Has a Birthday

by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard
Hardback
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 26/04/2016

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‘“Sad? Why should I be sad? It’s my birthday. The happiest day of the year.” said Eeyore.

“Your birthday?” said Pooh in great surprise.’ It’s Eeyore’s birthday and none of his friends have remembered it. So Pooh and Piglet plan to cheer him up with presents, and some unexpected surprises...

Now available as an individual storybook with E.H. Shepard’s illustrations. This story first appeared in A. A.Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, accompanied by E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations.

About the Author
Alan Alexander "A.A." Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was the author of the original Winnie the Pooh series of books, illustrated by E.H. Shepard. These books included the original Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as The House at Pooh Corner. Milne was also noted novelist, poet and playwright, though he remains to a large degree most widely known for the stories he wrote for his son, Christopher Robin Milne, about a "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff" named Winnie the Pooh. The characters in the story were based on Christopher's toys.

About the Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his illustrations of anthropomorphic characters in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.

ISBN:
9781405282949
9781405282949
Category:
Picture storybooks
Age range:
+ years old
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-04-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Farshore
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
48
Dimensions (mm):
158.75x158.75x9.52mm
Weight:
0.17kg
A. A. Milne

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. 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.

E. H. Shepard

E.H. Shepard was born in London in 1879. He was a cartoonist and illustrator and went on to draw the original illustrations to accompany Milne's classic stories, earning him the name 'the man who drew Pooh'.

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