Winnie
-the-
Pooh
with the original colour
illustrations by E. H. Shepard
Copyright
EGMONT
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Text by A.A. Milne copyright © Trustees of the Pooh Properties
Line illustrations copyright © E.H.Shepard
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First e-book edition 2010
ISBN 978 1 4052 4943 0
TO HER
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you’re surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it’s just what you wanted?
Because it’s yours—
Because we love you.
INTRODUCTION
If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don’t know which), and that he used to call this swan Pooh.