Mary Jane and Emmeline appear alongside boys who – often in curls and loose smocks over shorts in the distinctive drawings by E H Shepard – I’m sure I thought were girls, anyway.
Yes, there are twee aspects to them, and a distinct lack of female characters in the stories – though not so much in the poems. I’m like that with Pooh books, both the stories – The House At Pooh Corner, and Winnie The Pooh – and the little books of poems, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, which I am revisiting for this post. I think if you grew up with a book since babyhood and know it inside out, it’s almost impossible to look at it objectively. Winnie-the-Pooh Day is celebrated today, on the birthday of his creator, A A Milne.
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