Now We Are Six - Unabridged
By A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
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A.A. Milne, the beloved author of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, followed up his success with the first two Pooh books - "When We Were Very Young" and "Winnie-the-Pooh" - with this collection of poems for young rea
A.A. Milne
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882--1956) was a noted English author primarily known as a poet and playwright before he found huge success with his iconic children’s books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne served in both World Wars and was the father of Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the Pooh character Christopher Robin was based.
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Now We Are Six - Unabridged - A.A. Milne
Introduction
WHEN you are reciting poetry, which is a thing we never do, you find sometimes, just as you are beginning, that Uncle John is still telling Aunt Rose that if he can’t find his spectacles he won’t be able to hear properly, and does she know where they are; and by the time everybody has stopped looking for them, you are at the last verse, and in another minute they will be saying, Thank-you, thank- you,’’ without really knowing what it was all about. So, next time, you are more careful; and, just before you begin you say,
Er-‘h’r m!" very loudly, which means, "Now then, here we are’’; and everybody stops talking and looks at you: which is what you want. So then you get in the way of saying it whenever you are asked to recite....and sometimes it is just as well, and sometimes it isn’t....And by and by you find yourself saying it without thinking. Well, this bit which I am writing now, called Introduction, is really the er-‘h ’r ‘m of the book, and I have put it in, partly so as not to take you by surprise, and partly because I can’t do without it now. There are some very clever writers who say that it is quite easy not to have an er-‘h ’r ‘m but I don’t agree with them. I think it is much easier not to have all the rest of the book.
What I want to explain in the Introduction is this. We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young...and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby- ish to us, almost as if they had slipped out of some other book by mistake. On page whatever-it-is there is a thing which is simply three-ish, and , when we read it to ourselves just now we said, Well, well, well,
and turned over rather quickly. So we want you to know that the name of the book doesn’t mean that this is us being six all the time, but that it is about as far as we’ve got at present, and we half think of stopping there.
A. A. M .
P.S.— Pooh wants us to say that he thought it was a different book; and he hopes you won’t mind, but he walked through it one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake.
Contents
Solitude
King John’s Christmas
Busy
Sneezles
Binker
Cherry Stones
The Knight Whose Armour Didn’t Squeak
Buttercup Days
The Charcoal-Burner
Us Two
The Old Sailor
The Engineer
Journey’s End
Furry Bear
Forgiven
The Emperor’s Rhyme
Knight-in-Armour
Come Out with Me
Down by the Pond
The Little Black Hen
The Friend
The Good Little Girl
A Thought
King Hilary and the Beggerman
Swing Song
Explained
Twice Times
The Morning Walk
Cradle Song
Waiting at the Window
Pinkie Purr
Wind on the Hill
Forgotten
In the Dark
The End
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