Winnie-the-Pooh & The House at Pooh Corner — The Original Shepard-Illustrated Edition (eBook)

🧸 Both books. Every drawing. The Hundred Acre Wood as A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard first made it.

This is the complete Pooh — Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) in one edition, with all 216 of E. H. Shepard's original illustrations standing exactly where he put them, including the famous endpaper map "drawn by me and Mr Shepard helpd." Pooh here is Milne's bear and Shepard's bear: drawn in line, as he first appeared, from the real stuffed animals that still live today at the New York Public Library.

Everything is here, in the order Milne published it: Edward Bear coming downstairs bump, bump, bump; the Heffalump trap; Piglet entirely surrounded by water; Eeyore's birthday; the Expotition to the North Pole; Tigger's arrival and unbouncing; the invention of Poohsticks; the storm in which Piglet does a Very Grand Thing — and the last chapter, in the Enchanted Place, that no reader of any age has ever finished quite dry-eyed.

Inside this edition:

• The complete, unabridged texts of both books — all 20 chapters (Project Gutenberg #67098 and #73011, cross-checked against Internet Archive scans of the first editions — see the edition's provenance note)

• All 216 original Shepard illustrations in their original places, plus both endpaper maps

• Milne's own front matter complete: the Introduction, the Contradiction, and both dedication poems

• A new introduction — Milne the playwright, the real Christopher Robin, the real toys, and the real Forest

• Who's Who — Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Tigger, Christopher Robin, and the narrator himself

• Five explainers: the real places of Ashdown Forest · how Shepard drew from the real toys and the real woods · the hums and verses · Milne beyond Pooh · what fame cost Christopher Robin (gently, from his own memoirs)

• A short life of A. A. Milne

• A plain-spoken note on the period — post-Great-War England and the world the books were an answer to

• Discussion and read-aloud questions for every chapter, plus a whole-book set — made for family reading and book clubs alike

The texts and Shepard's illustrations are public domain in the United States, where this edition is published and first distributed; all companion material is original to this edition. This is an independent edition of Milne's original text with Shepard's illustrations; it is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or with any film or screen adaptation. (Milne died in 1956, so in countries whose term runs seventy years from an author's death the work enters the public domain in 2027; this edition is offered US-first.)

Formats: EPUB eBook ($9.99, this listing). Paperback and hardcover print editions follow on Amazon (black-and-white interior, faithful to Shepard's line art). The printable Book Club Kit for this edition is available in this store.