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Eeyore Loses a Tail
Things are Terrible and Sad when poor old Eeyore loses his tail. So Pooh, good friend and Helpful Bear, sets out to find it. What better place to start than Owl's? After all, Owl can read and write and spell his own name WOL...
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1926
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A.A. Milne
1,836 books3,678 followersAlan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
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July 20, 2021
yes this is going into my reading stats, fight me
June 9, 2018
Never has there ever been anything cuter than happy excited Eeyore frolicking upon having his tail reattached.
Owl is MORE of a jerk than I remember. I am beginning to question my judgement of character, as a child.
Owl is MORE of a jerk than I remember. I am beginning to question my judgement of character, as a child.
December 29, 2020
5 stars! Just for that amazing cute ending, of eeyore running around and dancing with his tale, once it had been reattached 😍 my heart melted ♥
January 10, 2021
Cute story. Lovely cut outs for the pop-ups.
August 16, 2022
Such a cute, sweet, and funny book!
November 3, 2022
Read with John ❤️
May 3, 2023
Eeyore frisking about at the end made me want to cry. I love him so much
May 24, 2023
Eeyore has lost his tail and Pooh has promised to find his tail 😃
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December 27, 2024Ik las eerst de Nederlandse vertaling en pas daarna het Engelse origineel, en het moet gezegd: de vertaling verliest wat aan speelsheid en magie die de originele taal zo mooi opwekt.
April 5, 2025
Poor Eeyore to be so sad.
September 19, 2023
Eeyore is just my favorite character in Winnie the Pooh. Loved this short story but would like to have read more on Eeyore.
January 28, 2016
Update: 1/27/2016
I read this book to my 5-year-old neighbor, Everleigh. Although she was the one to pick it out, she was a bit antsy during the story, and declared at the end, "It was too long." She had wanted to read it because it was a tiny version in a miniature boxed set of Winnie-the-Pooh books, but these books are probably best for kids a little bit older, or who at least have more patience.
I read this book to my 5-year-old neighbor, Everleigh. Although she was the one to pick it out, she was a bit antsy during the story, and declared at the end, "It was too long." She had wanted to read it because it was a tiny version in a miniature boxed set of Winnie-the-Pooh books, but these books are probably best for kids a little bit older, or who at least have more patience.
August 16, 2010
I used to love these books but now I’m not a fan of Winnie the Pooh. I used to be and I can remember some of these that were T.V. shows but not many of them. I recommend these books to all young kids as each book only has six pages.
September 24, 2012
This board book features one of the saddest children's characters of all time. I love Eeyore. The old Milne-style sketches (instead of the cheerier Disney ones) makes this a melancholy board book indeed.
July 6, 2016
Ryan loved this story.
November 23, 2020
Eeyore is my favourite from The Winnie-the-Pooh stories. This story is very beautiful and sweet.
I will read it to my daughter when she can understand it.
I will read it to my daughter when she can understand it.
October 5, 2021
What a clever, funny mystery story for children AND adults. Word play, big words, and interactions between the characters!
August 22, 2023
sir that's my emotional support bear and his friends going on about their silly little days!
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