Remembering Christopher Robin : escaping Winnie-The-Pooh / Kevin J. Last ; foreword by Madeline Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Last, Kevin J., author.

Contributor:

MuMu (Musician), writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956--Family.

Milne, A. A.

Milne, Christopher, 1920-1996.

Milne, Christopher.

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956.

Booksellers and bookselling--Great Britain--Biography.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Families.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewes : Unicorn Publishing Group, 2023.

Summary:

"This story began a hundred years ago when a child became the inspiration for his famous father, A. A. Milne, who created one of the best known children's characters in recent history. His parents wanted a girl and to begin with treated him as one. They were initially quite distant from him and his upbringing was left to a loyal and loving nanny. Unfortunately, this left Christopher Robin Milne terminally shy and lacking in self-confidence. Unable to escape from the shadow of his fictional self, he became an object of continued interest from a non-understanding public. His salvation started with being sent away to Stowe School, going to Cambridge and joining the Army in the Second World War as a sapper. After an unhappy and directionless time immediately post-war in London, he eventually married and, very successfully, ran a bookshop in the South West for twenty-one years. His life was dominated by a love of the countryside, learned at his parents' country home, Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex, and much later in Devon. How he turned his life round, against the odds, is the subject of this biography"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction

The god who painted the buttercups

Spirit of place

An adventure in the Hundred Acre Wood

Moving on

The outer limits

The father figure

Becoming Christopher Robin

Ashdown Forest and the Hundred Acre Wood

The double man

An ivory tower

Into the unknown

Preparation for war

The Italian job

First love

Home is the hunter

The right choice

Go west, young man

Developing the business

Clare

A place of their own

Four legs or fewer

Endgame.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1911397648

9781911397649

OCLC:

1375991670