Winnie the Pooh...and Tigger, Too!!

"How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
Every little cloud
Always sings aloud.
How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
It makes him very proud
To be a little cloud."
-Chapter I "In Which We Are Introduced to Some Bees, and the Stories Begin"
A.A. Milne

The Children's Literature Nook Presents...

Winnie the Pooh...and Tigger, Too!!

A Visit to the 100 Acre Wood

Updated on February 23, 1998

"Here he is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it...Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh."
-Chapter I
A.A. Milne

Welcome to my tribute to A.A. Milne and my favorite childhood story, Winnie-the-Pooh.

"Winnie-the-Pooh" courtesy of Mickifan

A.A. Milne

A.A. Milne is remembered as the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories for children. Written with charm, humor, and imagination, his Pooh stories have become classics, loved by young and old alike. Among the memorable characters that Milne introduced in his Pooh books are the teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh; Piglet; and Christopher Robin, a small boy whose creation was inspired by Milne's own son, Christopher Robin. Milne also wrote works for adults, including the plays Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, and The Dover Road. His other works for adults include the detective novel The Red House Mystery and a collection of poems, The Norman Church. Autobiography is the story of his life.

"Sometimes, when you are
a Bear of very very Little Brain,
and you think of Things,
you find sometimes that a
Thing which seemed very Thingish
inside you
is quite different when it
gets out into the open
and has other people
looking at it."
-A.A. Milne

About Winnie the Pooh

"Winnie-the-Pooh" was based on the books by A(lan) A(lexander) Milne which he wrote for his son Christopher Robin Milne. Christopher received a stuffed bear toy when he was one year old which was called "Pooh" adapted from a swan they met while vacationing. The name "Winnie" was taken from an American black bear cub at the London Zoo in 1914. The rest of Christopher Robin's toy animals were also written into the stories.

Facts About the Book

Winnie-the-Pooh
By A. A. Milne
Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard
Puffin Books, 1992
Each story from Winnie-the-Pooh has also been published separately as part of the Dutton Children's Books' series, Winnie-the-Pooh Storybooks.

Chapter Summaries

"We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the the Stories Begin"

In the first chapter, Pooh's taste for honey takes him up, up, and away when he disguises himself as a small black cloud in a blue sky to sneak up on some bees.

"Pooh Goes Vissiting and Gets into a Tight Place"

Pooh's love of honey gets him into a really sticky situation when he eats so much that he can't get out of the door to Rabbit's house.

"...So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was out in the open again...and then his ears...and then his front paws...and then his shoulders...and then-
"Oh, help! said Pooh.
"...Oh, help and bother!"
-Chapter II "Pooh Goes Visiting"

"Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle"

Pooh and Piglet track Woozle footprints in the snow as they circle around and around a tree.

"Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One"

Poor Eeyore has lost his tail and it's up to Pooh to find it.

"Piglet Meets a Heffalump"

Pooh and Piglet set out a trap a Heffalump with a pot of honey as bait, but Pooh gets caught in his own sweet trap.

"Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet has a Bath"

Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet plaan to capture Baby Roo, but when Piglet takes Roo's place in Kanga's pocket, he's in for the scrub of his life.

"Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents"

It's a dismal day for Eeyore, who thinks no one will want to celebrate his birthday, until Pooh and Piglet bring him two of the most unusual presents imaginable.

"Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole"

Christopher Robin, Pooh, and their friends head out in search of the North Pole. When Pooh finds a long pole lying beside a stream, Christopher Robin announces that their quest is over.

"Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water"

A flood forces Pooh to escape to a broad branch of his tree with his pots of honey, but he must leave his honey behind when he finds a note in a bottle written by Piglet, who is trapped in his house.

"Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-Bye"

Christopher Robin rewards Pooh for saving Piglet from the flood by giving him a special party.

Meet Pooh's Friends

Christopher Robin

Eeyore

"The old great donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?"- and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about..."

Kanga and Roo

Owl

Piglet

"The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house."
-Chapter III
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Rabbit

Tigger

The wonderful thing about tiggers are tiggers are wonderful things!

Tigger's Song Lyrics

Tigger's Song
From Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Performed by: Paul Winchell [Tigger]

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful chaps
They're loaded with vim and with vigor
They love to leap in your laps
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one.
Tiggers are wonderful fellahs.
Tiggers are awfully sweet.
Everyone elses is jealous,
And thats why I repeat...

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Are Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I'm the only one.
Yes, I'm the only one
(GRRrrrrrr...) ooOOoooOOooooOOOO!!!
Tigger...That's Tee-Eye-Double Grrrr-Er!!!

Bouncing's What Tiggers Do Best!

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Curriculum Connection: Especially for Teachers

New!!! Winnie the Pooh in the Classroom!! Activities enrich A.A. Milne's delighful Winnie the Pooh stories!

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Winnie-the-Pooh Song Lyrics

Winnie-the-Pooh
From Winnie The Pooh and the Honey Tree
Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Deep in the hundred acre wood where Christopher Robin plays
You'll find the enchanted neighborhood of Christopher's childhood days
A donkey named Eeyore is his friend and Kanga and little Roo
There's Rabbit and Piglet and there's Owl, but most of all Winnie -the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff
He's Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh
Willy nilly silly old bear

Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh
Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff
He's Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh
Willy nilly silly old bear

Christopher Robin and I walked along
Under branches lit up by the moon
Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore
As our days disappeared all too soon.
But I've wandered much further today than I should
And I can't find my
way back to the wood

So help me if you can
I've got to get back
to the House at pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised
There's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
and Pooh.

Winnie-the-Pooh doesn't know what to do
Got a honey jar stuck on his nose
He came to me asking help and advice
And from here no one knows where he goes
So I sent him to ask of the owl if he's there
How to loosen the jar from the
nose of a bear.

It's hard to explain how a few precious things
Seem to follow throughout all our lives
After all's said and done I was watching my son
Sleeping there with my bear by his side
So I tucked him in, I kissed him
and as I was going
I swear that the old bear whispered,
"Boy welcome home."

Believe me if you can
I've finally come back to the House at Pooh Corner by one
What do you know
There's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds in the sky
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
Back to the days of Christopher Robin
Back to the days of Pooh.

-Kenny Loggins

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Animated Tigger from The Skull
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The pictures and quoted text contained in the Pooh section, along with the fictional characters Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Christopher Robin are based on the original works of A.A.Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. The pictures, the text, the characters, and their names are registered trademarks of Dutton Children's Books. Dutton Children's Books in no way endorses this web site, nor are they affiliated with this page in any way. The information on this page comes in part from Winnie the Pooh, copyright 1926 by E.P. Dutton, Copyright renewal 1954 by A.A. Milne, and from The House of Pooh Corner, copyright 1928, by E.P. Dutton, copyright renewal 1956 by A.A. Milne. Those books are published in the US by Dutton's Children's Books, a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York, 10014.
Furthermore, the author of this page has not used this page, nor does she intend to use this page (or the information contained herein) for personal or professional gain. Rather the information is supplied as a public service to Pooh fans the world over; for their enjoyment, and to help them embrace the spirit of friendship that Pooh brings out in each of us.

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