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Winnie-the-Pooh

                   Winnie-the-Pooh, collection of children's stories by A.A. Milne, published in 1926. Milne wrote
                   the episodic stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and its sequel, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), for
                   his  young  son,  Christopher  Robin,  whose  toy  animals  were  the  basis  for  many  of  the
                   characters and whose name was used for the young boy who appears in the tales as the
                   benign master of the animals.
                   The main character, Winnie-the-Pooh (sometimes called simply Pooh or Edward Bear), is a
                   good-natured,  yellow-furred,  honey-loving  bear  who  lives  in  the  Forest  surrounding  the
                   Hundred  Acre  Wood  (modeled  after  Ashdown  Forest  in  East  Sussex,  England).  His
                   companions are Eeyore, a gloomy gray donkey; Piglet, a timid pig; Owl, a pontificating bird;
                   the meddlesome Rabbit; and Kanga, an energetic kangaroo whose inquisitive baby, Roo,
                   lives in her pouch.


































                   Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle
                   (born 1929)
                   Pooh, a self-described “Bear of Very Little Brain,” gets himself into all kinds of sticky situations,
                   and the book's 10 chapters recount his various adventures. In the first chapter, Pooh hears
                   bees in the treetop and believes they must be making honey. After unsuccessfully attempting to
                   climb the tree, he uses a balloon to pretend he is a cloud, but the bees are suspicious. Deciding
                   they are the wrong sort of bees, Pooh realizes he is unable to get down, and he enlists the help
                   of Christopher Robin, who pops the balloon with a gun. In a later adventure, Pooh visits Rabbit
                   and, after eating too much, gets stuck in Rabbit's doorway. For the next week, Pooh fasts while
                   Christopher Robin keeps him company. Finally he is slim enough for the others to pull him free.
                   Pooh's kindness is also evident, notably when he finds Eeyore's missing tail in chapter four.
                   Later in the book Pooh demonstrates his bravery when he and Christopher Robin set off in an
                   upturned umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood.
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