(Milne went on to write a book of children’s poetry, When We Were Very Young, that included a verse about a then-unnamed teddy bear who “however hard he tries grows tubby without exercise.”) You can ...

Birth of a bear “As a young man, [A.A.] Milne was an up-and-coming playwright in London. On a whim, he wrote a poem about his 2-year-old son, Christopher Robin, entitled ‘Vespers’ with the now-famous ...

"Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, there's always Pooh and me." Thus begins A. A. Milne's classic poem about a little boy and his bear, Us Two. Thus begins the delightful one-man show Bother!