What was the title of A. A. Milne's 1927 collection of children's poems?
Answer
Now We Are Six
A. A. Milne's 1927 collection of children's poems was titled Now We Are Six.
The book followed When We Were Very Young, Milne's 1924 collection, and was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Both poetry books helped establish the imaginative voice and child-centered world that readers later associated with Milne's Pooh stories.
Now We Are Six is not a Pooh story collection, although its poems share the same literary partnership between Milne and Shepard. The title refers to the age of the child at the center of the poems and reflects the book's focus on childhood growth.
Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, between the two poetry collections. The sequence shows that Pooh was part of a broader body of children's writing rather than Milne's only work for young readers.