{"product_id":"9781915751034-men-who-created-winnie-the-pooh","title":"The Men Who Created Winnie-the-Pooh","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lives of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard\u003cbr\u003ePublished to tie-in with the start of a four-year and multi-media celebration of the centenary of these classics of children’s’ literature, this highly illustrated, full-colour book celebrates the lives and times of the two men who created them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Campbell opens the sketchbooks of EH Shepard to reveal how he bought Winnie the Pooh to life' – Sunday Times Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e100 years on from the first publication of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, overseer of the E. H. Shepard artistic and literary estate James Campbell has written the first ever dual biography of Shepard and Milne.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003efirst-ever dual biography\u003c\/b\u003e of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, James Campbell brings to life the two remarkable men. The book takes us from their early professional and personal relationships, through their work at \u003ci\u003ePunch \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, all the way to the Second World War and beyond, including their other collaborations, most notably Shepard's renowned \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows\u003c\/i\u003e illustrations and Milne's work on the dramatization of \u003ci\u003eToad of Toad Hall\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing \u003cb\u003enever-before-seen archival materia\u003c\/b\u003el – including \u003cb\u003eexcerpts from original manuscripts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand drawings\u003c\/b\u003e, draft illustrations, photographs, documents, ephemera and more – this timely book is a\u003cb\u003e beautiful, full-colour volume \u003c\/b\u003ecelebrating the centenary of these much-loved characters and ultimately uncovering just who were the men who created Winnie-the-Pooh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56230998638966,"sku":"9781915751034","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36016655_2109365f-d8b8-4b2a-9cb9-a315a17c2001.jpg?v=1757558125","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781915751034-men-who-created-winnie-the-pooh","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}