
It would be hard to find a childhood not touched by Winnie the Pooh. A.A. Milne was born on January 18 in 1882 and it is today we should stop and remember the Pooh of literature and film that has become a part of our culture.
Winnie the Pooh was named for Milne's son Christopher's teddy bear, and Christopher, as Christopher Robin, featured prominently in the books and poetry set in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Douglas Lain explores a fictionalized account of Christopher Milne's adult life in
Billy Moon.

"Set during the turbulent year of 1968, Christopher Robin Milne, the
inspiration for his father's fictional creation, struggles to emerge
from a manufactured life, in a story of hope and transcendence. Billy
Moon was Christopher Robin Milne, the son of A. A. Milne, the
world-famous author of Winnie the Pooh and other beloved children's
classics. Billy's life was no fairy-tale, though. Being the son of a
famous author meant being ignored and even mistreated by famous parents;
he had to make his own way in the world, define himself, and reconcile
his self-image with the image of him known to millions of children. A
veteran of World War II, a husband and father, he is jolted out of
midlife ennui when a French college student revolutionary asks him to
come to the chaos of Paris in revolt. Against a backdrop of the
apocalyptic student protests and general strike that forced France to a
standstill that spring, Milne's new French friend is a wild card, able
to experience alternate realities of the past and present. Through him,
Milne's life is illuminated and transformed, as are the world-altering
events of that year."
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Milne wrote not only for children, but also turned his hand to writing for adults, including
The Red House Mystery and
The Sunny Side : short stories and poems for proper grown-ups.

"First published in 1921, this witty, pleasantly rarefied miscellany from
Winnie-the-Pooh creator Milne features his contributions to the British
magazine
Punch, where he was assistant editor, in the years
before and after WWI. In disarming short pieces grouped around various
themes, the deft Milne gently—very gently—skewers the peccadilloes of
his generation and its classes, such as Simon Simpson, the litterateur
of some eminence but little circulation, who invites all his friends to
join him on a lazy holiday on the French Riviera (Oranges and Lemons).
In the section Men of Letters, Milne has great fun caricaturing the
self-serious pomposity of fellow writers and poets, and even offers a
sampling of the tedious fare presented at Lady Poldoodle's Poetry
At-Homes. Some of the pieces in the War-Time section chronicle the
humble predicament of the French infantryman: managing an intractable
horse or finding comfort in a toy dog. A set of Home Notes concerns the
narrator's dear thoughts on married life with the sensible but rather
fluttery Celia; one piece finds the couple instigating a mystifying
dinner party game of Proverbs. Milne's quotidian observations remain
quite moving in their wry simplicities, which are not simple at all.
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Pooh is seemingly slow-witted and an innocent in many respects. He claims that he is a bear of very little brain and his friends tend to agree with him. Of course we know that Winnie the Pooh is more than that. He proves himself to be a poet, a highly sociable friend, and a bear who frequently problem-solves his way out of situations with his own unique brand of common sense. There is much we can learn from Pooh - some believe even a philosophy of life.
Postmodern Pooh by
Frederick Crews
"Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the
Modern Language Association's annual convention, this sequel of sorts to
the classic send-up of literary criticism,
The Pooh Perplex,
brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that held sway at the
millennium. Deconstruction, poststructuralist Marxism, new historicism,
radical feminism, cultural studies, recovered-memory theory, and
postcolonialism, among other methods, take their shots at the poor
stuffed bear and Frederick Crews takes his well-considered, wildly funny
shots at them. His aim, as ever, is true."
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Pooh and the psychologists : in which it is proven that Pooh Bear is a brilliant psychotherapist by
John Tyerman Williams
"Move over, Freud, there's a new psychologist in the forest, and his name is Winnie-the-Pooh. In this witty book, Williams cleverly explores the psychological depths of the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood: Piglet is compulsively shy, Eeyore is clinically depressed, and so on.
In his unobtrusive way, Pooh is at the center of the puzzle, teaching
each of his friends a little smackerel about themselves and leading them
on the road to recovery."
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The Te of Piglet by
Benjamin Hoff
"The Te of Piglet . . . in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed
through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet? Yes,
Piglet. For the better than impulsive Tigger? or the gloomy Eeyore? or
the intellectual Owl? or even the lovable Pooh? Piglet herein
demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te--a Chinese
word meaning Virtue--of the Small."
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The Tao of Pooh by
Benjamin Hoff
"The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is
revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a
venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other than that effortlessly
calm, still, reflective bear. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While
Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl
pontificates, Pooh just is. And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists."
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