With Pooh as a guide, preschoolers can discover shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and how to tell time as they explore this big lift-the-flap book. Hidden under 70 flaps are surprises to delight any fan of Winnie-the-Pooh. Full color.

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, those two names conjure up wonderful memories for most adults. A. A. Milne was the English author who brought them to life for countless children. Before his success with Winnie the Pooh Milne was a noted playwright. Milne wrote extensively for the magazine Punch. The Sunny Side is a collection of essays, poems and short stories published in Punch between 1912 and 1920.

A A Milne was the creator of the beloved character Winnie the Pooh. He was a film writer, author, poet and fictional character creator for television. Before his success with Winnie the Pooh Milne was known for his plays. Mr. Pim Passes By was first published in 1919. Carraway Pim comes to visit Mardens' country house with a letter of introduction. Mr. Pim is an unassuming fellow who some how manages to cause trouble in this amusing farce. There is of course a beautiful young ward who wants to marry a man her guardian objects to. They must appeal is his charming wife for help. The scenes with...

THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY is a "Whodunit" mystery novel, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel and was immediately popular; Alexander Woollcott called it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time," and Raymond Chandler, in his 1944 essay The Simple Art of Murder called it "an agreeable book, light, amusing in the Punch style, written with a deceptive smoothness that is not as easy as it looks."

Comedy

A. A. Milne

Characters: 4 male, 3 female

Arrangements have been made for Prince Simon to marry Princess Camilla. The King and Queen are nervous because-- let's face it-- Camilla is plain It is decided that a beautiful maid will impersonate Camilla until the wedding. The Prince hears of Camilla's beauty and, considering himself rather plain, has his extremely handsome man Carlo impersonate him. Simon and Camilla meet by chance and fall in love. Each is beautiful to the other and they live happily ever after.

The Red House Mystery is a mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his children's stories like "Winnie the Pooh" and poems. The Red House is an English country house loaded with guests, including a British major, a willful actress, and a young jock athlete. Tony Gillingham arrives at the Red House moments after a gunshot is heard. The room is locked, the murderer has disappeared and, in Tony's opinion, the police are going about it the wrong way. Antony, who was looking for a new profession anyway, decides to solve the murder...

Though A.A. Milne is best known for his children's books, don't expect to find Pooh Bear or Tigger in The Red House Mystery. Written a few years before Winnie the Pooh's debuts, The Red House Mystery was dedicated to Milne's father who delighted in mysteries. Instead of the denizens of the hundred acre wood we have a country house full of guests down for a week of golf and relaxation. Instead, when the black sheep brother of the house's owner returns after fifteen years in Australia he is promptly murdered and the owner is missing. See another side of the well known author in the only mystery...

In 1922 A.A. Milne published The Red House Mystery, his only mystery novel. Set in contemporary time when written, Milne's novel is a delightful "whodunnit" story of two friends who find themselves in the middle of a puzzle and the only ones who know enough to sort everything out. Milne's red herrings, suspense, and light-hearted comedy make this novel a hidden treasure of British literature. If you only know Milne for Winnie the Pooh, this novel might just convince you to try out everything else he has written too.

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Milne's classic work.