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Winnie -thePooh

A.A. Milne

with the original colour illustrations by E. H. Shepard

EGMONT

egmont.co.uk

First published in Great Britain 14 October 1926 by Methuen & Co. Ltd

Published in this edition 2004 by Egmont Books Limited 239 Kensington High Street, London W8 6SA

Text by A. A. Milne and line illustrations by E. H. Shepard Copyright under the Berne Convention

Colouring of the illustrations copyright ? 1970 E. H. Shepard and Egmont Books Limited

and ? 1974 E. H. Shepard and Egmont Books Limited

ISBN 1 4052 1118 0

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

Printed and bound in Great Britain by the CPI Group

This paperback is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

TO HER

Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I

To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours ? Because we love you.

INTRODUCTION

If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don't know which), and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it.

You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAY I N , and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAY O U T, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third

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