This is a full-scale treatment of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, two of the most popular children's books of all time. Although for many decades people took Milne's work lightly, in the 1980s Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet secured Milne's status as an object of academic interest. In this comprehensive Pooh companion, Connolly finds the source of Pooh's popularity in the elemental tensions Milne's books express. Empowered by innocence, Pooh's world is an anti-authoritarian realm of universal appeal.