Winnie-the-Pooh: Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace: Britain through the eyes of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard

About A. A. Milne

A.A.Milne was born in London in 1882. He began writing as a contributor to Punch magazine and also wrote plays and poetry. Winniethe-Pooh made his first appearance in Punch magazine in 1923. Soon after in 1926 Milne published his first stories about Winnie-thePooh which were an instant success. Since then Pooh has become a world-famous bear and Milne's stories have been translated into approximately forty-different languages. E.H.Shepard famously illustrated both 'Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'The Wind in the Willows' though like A.A.Milne much of his career was devoted to work for the satirical magazine Punch. To do the illustrations for 'Winnie-the-Pooh' Shepard observed the real Christopher Robin Milne but not the real Pooh. The bear in the pictures is in fact based on Growler a toy belonging to Shepard's own son.