Share Your Birthday Cards
for Winnie-the-Pooh!
for Winnie-the-Pooh!
Happy 100th birthday, silly old bear! Mail your birthday cards to Pooh here:
Attn: Winnie-the-Pooh 100, c/o Dutton Children’s Books,
1745 Broadway, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10019
Select cards will be displayed at the New York Public Library
and other participating bookstores and libraries.
The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
Celebrate 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh with this newly updated, deluxe anniversary edition!
This full-color collectible includes the complete texts of both Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner and features gorgeously patterned sprayed edges, a satin ribbon marker, and illustrated endpapers of the Hundred Acre Wood.
Since 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends—Piglet, Owl, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, and the ever doleful Eeyore—have endured as the unforgettable creations of A. A. Milne, who wrote...
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Hip Hip Pooh-ray! Explore the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends
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Celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh
at an Event Near You!
at an Event Near You!
October 10, 2pm - The New York Public Library Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
Celebrate 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh with Dutton Children’s Books and the New York Public Library. Guests of all ages are invited to a family reading of the timeless story, and to join the celebrations by creating a birthday card for the iconic stuffed bear, adding it to a display wall featuring hundreds of contributions collected from readers nationwide. Additional activities include giveaways, photo ops, activity sheets, and other fun surprises.
The New York Public Library will also host Pooh-related events at their 88 local branches throughout September and October. Events will include birthday card stations and complimentary copies of Winnie-the-Pooh, courtesy of Penguin Random House, while supplies last. Contact your local branch for more information.
Winnie-the-Pooh's Story
The story of Winnie-the-Pooh grew out of author A.A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin’s 18-inch-tall stuffed bear named Winnie and his companions Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo, and the bedtime stories they inspired. Milne enlisted illustrator Ernest Shepard to help bring these tales, set in the magical Hundred Acre Wood, to life on the page. Milne and Shepard published the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.
Winnie-the-Pooh has been counted among the 100 best Children’s Books of all time by TIME Magazine and credited with creating “among the most cherished of characters in children’s literature” by The New Yorker. Praised as “as magical now as they were…in 1926” (Good Housekeeping), Winnie-the-Pooh books have sold more than 45 million copies across the United States, remaining a staple on children’s first bookshelves thanks to Shephard’s iconic illustrations and Pooh’s ineffable humor, calm, and self-deprecation. Off the page, Pooh has inspired countless adaptations across film, television, audio, and other formats. A.A. Milne’s original Winnie-The-Pooh stories entered Public Domain in the U.S. in 2022.
About the Creators
A. A. Milne (1882-1956) was born in England. He studied at Cambridge but left school in 1903 to write, soon supporting himself on his earnings as an editor at Punch magazine and as a playwright. His son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920. Christopher's toy bear, pig, donkey, tiger, and kangaroo inspired the famous Pooh books. Milne also wrote plays, a novel, his autobiography, and political nonfiction, although he is best remembered for Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, and Now We Are Six.
Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) was born in England. Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, and, after graduating, supported himself by drawing for illustrated papers and books. He became a regular contributor to Punch magazine, where he met A. A. Milne. While working together, Shepard agreed to do the illustrations for Milne's first book of verse, When We Were Very Young. Shepard’s witty and loving illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood have become an inseparable part of the Pooh stories, and they have become classics in their own right.
