Tag: AA Milne

• There’s More to AA Milne than Pooh and Piglet!

  I read this on my Kindle, courtesy ofProject Gutenberg, and have no ‘real’book, so here is a frontispiece from anedition illustrated by  Charles Robinson,whose work I love.  King Merriwig of Euralia sat at breakfast on his castle walls. He lifted the gold cover from the gold dish in front of him, selected a trout and conveyed it carefully to his gold plate. He…

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  August 16, 2012

  AA Milne, fairy tale, Once On A Time

• What Were Your Favourite Childhood Books?

  Can you name at least one book that you read as a child (ie 11 or under) that still exists in your memory as a perfect story?  That was the challenge issued to me by my friend Phillipa Ashley (a prize-winning novelist – you’ll find her at http://phillipa-ashley.com/) way back in June 2010 when I’d only just…

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  April 14, 2012

  AA Milne, Alison Uttley, Children’s Books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kidnapped, Kipling, Malcolm Saville, Mark Twain, Mervyn Peake, Oliver Twist, Pollyana, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island

• King John’s Christmas

  Two for the price of one today. Since I am in poetic mood, here is AA Milne’s King John’s Christmas, copied from When We Were Very Young, which is the first book I was ever given, when I was less than a year old. King John was not a good man –He had his little…

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  December 7, 2011

  AA Milne, King John’sChristmas