Winnie-the-Pooh

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Children's Literature

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    More than sixty years ago, Christopher Robin took his friend Edward Bear - who came to be known to millions of fans as Winnie-the-Pooh - by one chubby paw and brought him unceremoniously downstairs. Pooh had endured, still slightly rotund, a Bear of Very Little Brain, but very generous of heart: the immortal creation of A. A. Milne, who wrote this book for his only son, Christopher Robin, and Ernest H. Shepard, who lovingly gave Pooh and his companions shape. 

    The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Owl, Trigger, and the ever doleful Eeyore are timeless treasures of childhood. These tales still speak to all of us with the freshness that distinguishes true storytelling.

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Sonnet 50 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 50

by William Shakespeare

How heavy do I journey on the way,

When what I seek, my weary travel's end,

Doth teach that ease and that repose to say

'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'

The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

As if by some instinct the wretch did know

His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:

The bloody spur cannot provoke him on

That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;

Which heavily he answers with a groan,

More sharp to me than spurring to his side;

For that same groan doth put this in my mind;

My grief lies onward and my joy behind.

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