When We Were Very Young
Author: A.A. Milne
Illustrator: E.H. Shepard
Book 1 in the Winnie-the-Pooh series
Pages: 192
Published: 1924
Age: 5+
This collection of delightful children's poems introduces the beloved bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Originally written for Milne's own son, children the world over have no doubt heard about the kind and simple bear who spends his time enjoying honey and counseling friends. Adults and older children will enjoy Milne's poems too, as some of his humour is subtly directed at a more sophisticated audience. But younger children are the ones who love the naughty Mary Jane (lovely rice pudding again?) and the bears on the corners of London's streets. Read these poems aloud and pass along (or begin) a family tradition.
About the Winnie-the-Pooh Series
Books in series order
- 1.When We Were Very Young(1924)
- 2.Winnie-the-Pooh(1926)
- 3.Now We Are Six(1927)
- 4.The House at Pooh Corner(1928)
- +Return to the Hundred Acre Wood(2009)
Reading age: 6+ years
More than eighty years ago, a young boy named Christopher Robin took his teddy-bear friend Winnie-the-Pooh by one chubby paw and introduced him to the first generation of readers who would come to fall in love with this delightful character. Pooh has endured, slightly rotund, a 'Bear of Very Little Brain', but generous of heart: the immortal creation of A. A. Milne, who wrote these poems and stories for his only son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape.
The adventures of Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Tigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore, are timeless treasures of childhood. These tales still speak to all of us with the vividness which distinguishes true storytelling...