I Love Pooh

In 1921(!!!), Alan Alexander Milne gave his one year old son, Christopher Robin, a stuffed bear. Soon a few more stuffed toys were added - a tiger, a pig, and a donkey. And before long, these toys came to life in the pages of four books - When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House At Pooh Corner. To this day, kids of all ages (that includes me!), still read the Pooh books and fall in love with that "silly old bear!"

We all know Pooh because of the Disney movies and books, but the original stories of Milne and the drawings of Ernest H. Shepard are wonderful, whimsical, fanciful, and Tudy-lightful! They totally capture the tenderness, sweetness, and "funny-ness" of Pooh!

So here's a cute game featuring the original Winnie-the-Pooh drawings! Gotta "think, think, think" for this one!

And if you get the chance, visit the real Pooh and four of his best friends (not the cartoons or drawings, but the real stuffed toys!) - at The New York Public Library's History and Social Science Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York. It'll be like visiting the 100 Acre Wood.

But of course, all you really have to do to visit Pooh, is to open one of Milne's books...

So, do you love Pooh?