milne, a. a

Uses live-action to tell how Ernest Shepard and A.A. Milne collaborated between 1923 and 1928 in writing a series of books for children featuring Winnie-the-Pooh.

Examines the life of A. A. Milne, a children's storybook author, and provides information on how the reader may compose their own biography.

Provides definitions for and examples of many of the unique words and phrases found in the texts of "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner.".

Presents Frederick Crews's 1963 spoof of literary criticism in which A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is analyzed in twelve essays, and includes a 2002 preface that identifies some of the critics parodied.

The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way of the Small.

Explains the principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh, and explains Winnie-the-Pooh through the secret wisdom of the Taoists.

A seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of Winnie-the-Pooh, tracing the history of the beloved bear, inspired by a stuffed toy bought for creator A. A. Milne's son's first birthday, from 1926 through the early twenty-first century. Includes color artwork, original sketches, photographs, newspaper reports, and reproductions of manuscript pages.