1. Christopher Robin, as seen by E. H. Shepard in the last chapter of The House at Pooh Comer and as photographed by his father in 1924, apparently ‘examining a butterfly’.

2. A. A. Milne in uniform before leaving for the Somme in July 1916. He wrote afterwards about ‘a nightmare of mental and moral degradation’.

3. Father and son: A. A. and C. R. Milne. The child was always known as Billy.

4. Christopher Robin and Pooh.

5. Christopher Robin with his mother, Daphne.

6. Christopher Robin with his nanny, Olive Rand, known to him as ‘Nou’. She holds Pooh; a larger Piglet is by the fence.

7. At London Zoo with Winnie the Canadian bear, who gave Pooh his name, March 1927.

8. Poohsticks Bridge, as seen by E. H. Shepard in 1926 and more recently.

9. A page of the manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh, given by Milne to his old college, Trinity, Cambridge.

10. Christopher Robin and Pooh by Marcus Adams, March 1928.

11. The toys in their home in the Children’s Room of the New York Public Library, looking their age. They have recently been tenderly repaired.

12. The front of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, thirty-five miles from London, bought by Milne in 1925.

13. The back lawn at Cotchford, with Daphne, Christopher Robin, Pooh and Alan Milne looking distinctly uneasy.