The men who created Winnie the Pooh - The lives of A.A Milne and E.H Shepard - BY James Campbell

Firstly, James Campbell did an awesome job with this duel-biography! And I am glad to have been given the opportunity to read and review it. 💎

There are so many awesome facts crammed in here! I learnt a few things that both surprised me and made me laugh out loud throughout. I for one didn’t know that H.G Wells was A.A Mine’s maths teacher 😲 or that A.A Mine’s father was the house master of the school he and his brothers attended and H.G Wells taught at…I find facts like this super cool, although I’m not so sure how cool it would have been to have either of my parents as teachers in my school. lol My siblings and I learnt a lot at home from both of our parents and I’m glad they were learnt there, at home! 😉

Christopher Robin (born 1920) was the son of A.A Milne and his wife Daphne. After the birth of Christopher Robin, Milne started to write snippets of poetry in a light-hearted, whimsical style, for children but aimed at resonating with grown-ups as well. At first he did these for his own amusement and for the pleasure of writing for his precious son, but gradually he took some of his scribblings and started to work them up into pieces he thought might, at some point, be suitable for publication. 👌🏻

2026 - The Centenary of the publication of Winnie-The-Pooh - Also marks the 70th anniversary of the death of A.A.Milne and the 50th anniversary of the death of Ernest Shepard.

Above all Winnie The Pooh is hands down my all time favourite, of which Tigger is my favourite character! 💕

….Now I want to read The Wind in the Willows ☺️