The House At Pooh Corner

The House At Pooh Corner is the second volume of stories about a bear called Winnie-The-Pooh and was written by English author A. A. Milne in 1928. Milne was a gifted and mercurial writer who studied at Cambridge University on a mathematics scholarship. He was a noted playwright before the success of Winnie-The-Pooh eclipsed his previous work. Milne was a passionate cricket player and was a member of a cricket team called The Allahakbarries with fellow writers J. M. Barrie and Arthur Conan Doyle. Milne wrote the Winnie-The-Pooh books for his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and the characters were inspired by his son's collection of stuffed toy animals, notably his teddy bear Winnie-The-Pooh. Originally named Edward, he was re-named after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (short for Winnipeg) who was used as a military mascot in World War One before being left to London Zoo after the war. E. H. Shephard's illustrations of Winnie-The-Pooh were based on his own son's teddy bear, Growler.