

Lucas (author and Chairman of the publishing house Methuen, who knew both A.A. An early pencil drawing in which Pooh is holding a jar of honey while Piglet digs the Heffalump trap.Īfter the almost instantaneous success of When We Were Very Young, publishing house Methuen, Punch magazine, and the buying public were clamoring for more. At the time of publication, and for some years afterwards, the books of verse-which only included a few poems mentioning Winnie-the-Pooh-were more popular than the Pooh storybooks.


The four volumes known collectively as the Winnie-the-Pooh books divide into two books of verse (the first and third), and two books of stories about Pooh Bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood (the second and fourth).
