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14 October 1926 – 14 October 2026 · One hundred years of Winnie-the-Pooh
One hundred years of Winnie-the-Pooh
The Centenary · MCMXXVI–MMXXVI
One hundred years in the Hundred Acre Wood
On 14 October 1926 a small book about a boy and his bear reached the bookshops. A century on, here are our Winnie-the-Pooh books, scarves and keepsakes, gathered in one place.
Or begin with a little something:
E. H. Shepard, from the first edition, 1926
Chapter I
In which we find somewhere warm to read
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Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and their friends in black and white, after Shepard’s drawings, with plush Sherpa fleece on the back.
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Chapter II
In which we find a book worth reading aloud
The stories and the poems, in editions made to be kept on the shelf and taken down often.
First published
14 October 1926
Methuen & Co. in London and E. P. Dutton in New York brought out Winnie-the-Pooh on the same day. Its first chapter had already appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve 1925, under the title “The Wrong Sort of Bees”.
- 150,000
- copies sold by Dutton before 1926 was out
- 72
- languages it has since been translated into
- 10
- stories, from the bees to the party
Chapter I
In which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees, and the stories begin
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
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Chapter III
In which we pack for an Expotition
Scarves, gloves and totes printed with the words and pictures of the book, for carrying a little of the Forest about with you.
Winnie-the-Pooh Book Scarf
$73.00
Winnie-the-Pooh Book Tote
$66.00
Winnie-the-Pooh Tea Towel
$24.00
Winnie-the-Pooh Enamel Pin
$19.00
Winnie-the-Pooh Book Pouch
$30.00
Chapter IV
In which we go exploring with a map
The map that opens the 1926 edition. Choose a place to see what we found there.
On the map
Bee Tree
Where a bear, a balloon and the wrong sort of bees began it all.
On the map
Nice for Piknicks
Room for a Sustaining Book and a little something.
On the map
Pooh Bear’s House
He lived here all by himself, under the name of Sanders.
On the map
Where the Woozle Wasn’t
One fine winter’s day, two friends followed paw-marks round a spinney. Gloves would have helped.
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Choose optionsOn the map
100 Aker Wood
Owl lives here. The whole map lives on this tea towel, in color.
On the map
Eeyore’s Gloomy Place
Rather boggy and sad. A scarf is some comfort.
The author and the illustrator
A. A. Milne
1882–1956 · “Me”
Alan Alexander Milne was a Punch humorist and a playwright before he was a children’s author. The stories grew out of his son Christopher Robin’s nursery toys and the family’s walks in Ashdown Forest, beside their Sussex farmhouse.
E. H. Shepard
1879–1976 · “Mr Shepard”
Ernest Howard Shepard, a Punch artist, first drew for Milne’s verses in 1924. For Pooh he sketched in Ashdown Forest and took the bear’s shape from his own son’s teddy. In 1931 he went on to illustrate The Wind in the Willows.
… and we say good-bye
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter X