While Pooh stands alone, Milne's other writings are worth reading, especially this collection of short stories and silly poems, many from his days with Punch. He lampoons literary pretensions in several self-conscious stories and plays, and his explanation of his "One Star" as a Second Lieutenant is

A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books so overshadow his other work that readers forget that he was a successful playwright and a longtime contributor to the British satirical magazine Punch. The short stories are amusing, and they rather reminded me of a more light-hearted version of Saki’s Clovis stor

Oh boy, this was clever. Very clever.

I found myself smirking at Man of Letters and how absolutely meta it was that an author was writing about another author writing about another author writing about another author and so on. And then more smirking as Milne blind-sided me by having the publisher a

Some of my earliest literary memories are of my mother reading all the original Winnie-the-Pooh books aloud to me, but I didn't discover A.A. Milne's writings for adults until just a few years ago. The Sunny Side is a collection of his short stories and poems for the magazine Punch, and I absolutely

Short stories, poems, and thoughts - quite fun :)

You know it's good book when the Author in preface tells you to skip section #1 and start with section #2 and then read the beginning last - citing that the characters familiar to regular readers found in section #1 will then be as familiar to you as

I mean, come on. A.A. Milne for Proper Grown-Ups? Not that Pooh isn't for grown-ups, of course.

Being an incredibly awkward shy person, myself, I particularly enjoyed the story "A Warm Half-Hour," featuring ninepennyworth of ice and Algernon, the overwhiskered crustacean. There are also helpful tips