How a Bear Became a Book, written by Annette Bay Pimentel and illustrated by Faith Pray
100 years ago, Edward Bear — also known as Winnie-the-Pooh — also known as Pooh — went bump, bump, bump down the stairs for the first time.
Though he made an earlier appearance in the 1924 book of poems When We Were Very Young — “Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not to be wondered at” — 1926’s Winnie-the-Pooh was
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