Children's Favorites - Volume I - Winnie-the-Pooh - My Father's Dragon - The Story of Doctor Dolittle

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By A.A. Milne & Ruth Stiles Gannett &

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Presented here are three of the most popular children's books of all time: A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh," Ruth Stiles Gannett's "My Father's Dragon" and Hugh Lofting's "The Story of Doctor Dolittle."

"Winnie-the-Pooh" tells the story of Christopher Robin and his friends, which includes Winnie-the-Pooh (a Bear of Very Little Brain), sweet-natured Piglet, cantankerous Rabbit and the gloomy Eeyore. An instant hit when it was originally published, Pooh has become a beloved favorite for children all over the world and this volume includes the original illustrations by Ernest Shepard.

Then, Ruth Stiles Gannett's classic "My Father's Dragon," which relates the story of a young boy trying to free a dragon who is being held captive on Wild Island and the dangerous creatures he encounters on his journey. It also contains the original illustrations by Ruth Crisman Gannett.

And finally, rounding off this animal-filled trio, we have the story of the Man Who Talks to the Animals, Doctor Dolittle himself. This is the first volume of the cherished "Doctor Dolittle" series - which sees the Doctor and his friends travel to Africa and back - and it has been revised for content in this new version.

Enjoy ALL THREE of these classic children's novels in ONE VOLUME! This is the first of a limited series.

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About A.A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) was an English author and veteran of the first World War who rose to prominence after publishing a series of stories based his son's stuffed bear. The bear was originally named Edward Bear, but was later renamed Winnie after a Canadian black bear who caught the imagination of the British public when it was transported to the London Zoo during World War I. Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, had a collection of stuffed animals, most of whom appeared as characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories: Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger (Rabbit and Owl were invented by the author). The original stuffed animals are now on permanent display at the New York Public Library and are visited by hundreds of thousands of admirers every year. Apart from the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne was a prolific writer, contributing stories to the magazine Punch (where he served as an assistant editor) and penning eighteen plays and three novels before 1926. Originally the subject of short stories, the first collection - Winnie-the-Pooh - was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. While the Pooh stories were easily the most popular and lucrative of Milne's work, Milne continued writing adult fiction and plays. But none of his other works achieved the same notoriety or success as the Pooh series. A.A. Milne died on January 31, 1956 at age 74. Despite his prodigious literary output in other genres, it is the Winnie-the-Pooh stories that remain among the most popular children's fiction ever created. In addition to the millions of print copies sold over the years they have been brought to the screen - most notably by the Walt Disney Company - for decades and Milne's gentle and occasionally absurdist humor will no doubt enchant children and adults for decades to come.

Other books by A.A. Milne

Winnie the Pooh and the Mysterious Honey Pot

A.A Milne

$3.99

The House at Pooh Corner - Illustrated and Unabridged

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The A.A. Milne Collection - Winnie-the-Pooh - The House at Pooh Corner - When We Were Very Young - Now We Are Six - Unabridged

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Now We Are Six - Unabridged

A.A. Milne & Ernest H. Shepard &

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When We Were Very Young - Winnie-the-Pooh Series, Book #1 - Unabridged

A.A. Milne & Kevin Theis

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Winnie the Pooh

A.A. Milne

$2.99

Winnie-the-Pooh - Unabridged

A.A. Milne & E.H. Shepard

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Happy Half-Hours

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The Sunny Side

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Ruth Stiles Gannett

Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American writer best known for her 1948 classic children's novel "My Father's Dragon" and its two sequels, "Elmer and the Dragon" and "The Dragons of Blueland." Born in Brooklyn, New York to journalists Mary Ross and Lewis Stiles Gannett, Ruth and her family moved to Greenwich Village in New York City soon after her birth where she attended the progressive City and Country elementary school. The school was renowned for putting great value in learning about the arts and Ruth was encouraged to explore painting, scientific experiments and creative writing as an essential part of her early education. After graduation from Vassar, Gannett began her work in the medical field, working at the Boston General Hospital and then the Massachusetts Radiation Laboratory. After returning to live with her parents, Gannett's life changed forever when, in 1947, she not only published her most defining work - "My Father's Dragon" - but she also married Peter Kahn, with whom she would have seven daughters. Gannett wrote two other short books: "The Wonderful House-Boat-Train" (1949) and "Katie and the Sad Noise" (1961) but neither of these novels achieved the literary fame of her first book, which prompted Gannett to return to "My Father's Dragon" and explore the further adventures of Elmer in the two sequels. Today, Ms. Gannett lives net Trumansburg, New York, near Cornell University and has eight grandchildren.

Other books by Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Father's Dragon 75th Anniversary Edition

My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon - Unabridged

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My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

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My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett

My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon (Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett)

My Father's Dragon

My Father's Dragon (A Newbery Honor Book)

Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett

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My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett & Ruth Chrisman Gannett

$5.99

Three Tales of My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

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The Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit & H. R. Millar &

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Hugh Lofting

Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) was an author of Anglo-Irish ancestry born in Berkshire, England. Though he had an early love of writing, Lofting attempted to take a more practical path with his professional career, training as a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and London Polytechnic but always continuing his writing as he studied.Upon graduation, Lofting moved from one job to another, prospecting for gold in Canada, traveling to Cuba and West Africa and finally settling in America in 1912 where he married Flora Small, who bore him two children.At the beginning of World War One, he signed up to work for the British Ministry of Information in New York before enlisting in the British Army and serving in the Irish Guards. While stationed in France, Lofting saw combat - particularly at Flanders - and found the war to be alternatively tedious and horrifying. Rather than describe what was actually happening to him when he wrote letters home to his family, Lofting chose instead to create a fictional character - who he called "Doctor Dolittle" - to entertain his children.When he returned home from the war, he quickly abandoned any idea of returning to his life as an engineer and concentrated on his writing. At his family's insistence, he turned his fictional, animal-loving doctor into the title character of his first book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle. It became an immediate hit and spawned no less than eight sequels.Lofting passed away in 1947, leaving behind two posthumous Doctor Dolittle books to be published by his surviving family.Though he wrote many other books and stories, Lofting's true legacy is the Doctor Dolittle series, which has been adapted many times to the stage and screen and which is beloved by children around the world to this day.