Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne’s stories of Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear of very little brain, and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo in the Hundred Acre Wood, told to the boy Christopher Robin, who owns the toy bear.

Start reading12 chapters, about 23,000 words

Famous quotes

• Here 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.

  Chapter IIn context

  • Comedy
  • Thinking

• Isn’t it funny
  How a bear likes honey?
  Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
  I wonder why he does?

  Chapter IIn context

  • Animals
  • Food

• How sweet to be a Cloud
  Floating in the Blue!

  Chapter IIn context

  • Nature

• Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o’clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, “Honey or condensed milk with your bread?” he was so excited that he said, “Both,” and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, “But don’t bother about the bread, please.”

  Chapter IIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Food

• “I have been Foolish and Deluded,” said he, “and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.”

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Intelligence

• Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.

  Chapter VIIn context

  • Comedy

• Because my spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  Chapter VIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Writing

• “It is hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.”

  Chapter VIIIn context

  • Courage

• It’s a little Anxious,” he said to himself, “to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Fear

Contents

1. Dedication
2. Introduction
3. Chapter IIn Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
4. Chapter IIIn Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place
5. Chapter IIIIn Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
6. Chapter IVIn Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
7. Chapter VIn Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
8. Chapter VIIn Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
9. Chapter VIIIn Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
10. Chapter VIIIIn Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
11. Chapter IXIn Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water
12. Chapter XIn Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-Bye