And it looks like today is A.A. Milne's birthday! I adore this Semicolon post: it's full of delightful bits and snippets, some Winnie-the-Pooh-ish, and others not quite so much.
Meg and I have been reading The House at Pooh Corner. That is, I've been reading it, and she's been mostly sleeping through it. That's all right. But it appears that not everyone liked it when it came out, and Dorothy Parker went so far as to write an unkind review. To which (according to the post linked above) Milne replied he didn't write it for her. " . . . no writer of children’s books says gaily to his publisher, ‘Don’t bother about the children, Mrs Parker will love it.'"
And there you have it.
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Interesting. Speaking of author birthdays, Robert Burns' is being celebrated on the 25th here. It's apparently a pretty significant holiday.
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