Winnie-the-Pooh

Here is a bear who lives for honey, speaks in a murmur, and somehow solves every problem with extraordinary good cheer. Here are his friends: Piglet, who is small and brave; Eeyore, who is gray and glum but beloved anyway; Rabbit, who is busy and important; and Christopher Robin, who is the sun around which this world turns. First published in 1926, these ten stories in the Hundred Acre Wood have been making readers laugh and sigh for nearly a century. They are about honey pots and heffalumps, about expotitions to the North Pole and finding the right sort of friend. They are about the small, bright things that matter when you are young enough to notice them. Milne wrote for his son, and the tenderness never becomes saccharine, because the humor saves it. Pooh is not perfect, and neither are his friends. They get frightened, they make mistakes, they lose things. But they find their way back to each other, gently, every time. This is the book you remember loving, and the book you will love again.