#4 in Poetry
Winnie-the-Pooh
- 159
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Winnie-the-Pooh” is a set of short, gentle stories whose humour works on children and on the adults reading aloud to them. Nothing much is at stake in the Hundred Acre Wood, and that is the charm: a bear, his friends and their small misunderstandings, told with warmth and matched by E. H. Shepard’s drawings. Readers who loved it as children may well find it unchanged when they come back.
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About the book
Winnie-the-Pooh is a 1926 children's book by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The book is set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood, with a collection of short stories following the adventures of an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. It is the first of two story collections by Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the second being The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne and Shepard collaborated previously for English humour magazine Punch, and in 1924 created When We Were Very Young, a poetry collection. Among the characters in the poetry book was a teddy bear Shepard modelled after his son's toy. Following this, Shepard encouraged Milne to write about his son Christopher Robin Milne's toys, and so they became the inspiration for the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh.
Reading order · Winnie-the-Pooh series
Full order & progress →- Winnie-the-PoohThis book
8.48.4 / 10 - The House at Pooh Corner
8.48.4 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.6 across 511 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Poetry average of 8.0. That is how 8.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 77 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 8.6 | 434 | 85% |
Frequently asked
What age is Winnie-the-Pooh for?
Winnie-the-Pooh sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 159 pages — shorter than 67% of the ranked books in Poetry.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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