Piglet Meets a Heffalump

Piglet Meets a Heffalump Magnet paperback first published 1981; this copy reprinted 1981 and 1984 ISBN 0 416 21710 9 / 0416217109 / 9780416217100 Binding Softcover / paperback. Small format, approx. 6 x 7 inches (c.15.5 x 18 cm). Pink pictorial wrappers. Magnet logo to front and rear. Original printed price £1.25 net in UK only. Unpaginated (c.32 pages including prelims). Condition Very Good Used. Good reading copy. Pictorial wrappers show light surface scuffs, corner and edge wear, and modest rubbing consistent with age and handling. Spine intact and readable. Internals complete: no loose or missing leaves observed. Pages clean of annotation in the story text; light age-toning. Description A complete short story from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, issued as a standalone Magnet paperback for younger readers and for reading aloud. Christopher Robin mentions that he has seen a Heffalump. Pooh decides they must catch one by means of a Cunning Trap: a Very Deep Pit baited with honey. Piglet will dig; Pooh will fetch the hunny. Night, hunger, a jar that will not come off, counting Heffalumps instead of sheep, and Piglet’s anxious bravery follow. The text is the original Milne chapter, not a Disney retelling. This is the Magnet “Piglet paperback” series: individual chapters extracted from the 1926 Methuen Winnie-the-Pooh, reset as small picture paperbacks with E. H. Shepard’s decorations in colour. Rear wrapper lists companion Magnet titles including Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle, Eeyore Has a Birthday, Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and An Expotition to the North Pole. Copyright and production notes as printed in this copy: story taken from Winnie-the-Pooh, originally published in Great Britain 14 October 1926 by Methuen & Co. Ltd. Text by A. A. Milne and line illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard copyright under the Berne Convention. United States copyright 1926 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.; copyright renewal 1954 by A. A. Milne. Colouring of the illustrations copyright 1970 by Ernest H. Shepard and Methuen & Co. Ltd and 1973 by Ernest H. Shepard and Methuen Children’s Books Ltd. First published in this edition 1975 by Methuen Children’s Books Ltd. Magnet paperback edition first published 1981; reprinted 1981 and 1984. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Limited, Aylesbury, Bucks, member of the BPCC Group. ISBN 0 416 21710 9. About the author Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) was an English playwright, poet and essayist who became, somewhat to his later discomfort, one of the most famous children’s writers in the language. Born in Kilburn, London, and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, he wrote for Punch and had a successful West End career before the two Pooh books. Winnie-the-Pooh (Methuen, 14 October 1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) grew from the nursery toys of his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and from Ashdown Forest. The Heffalump chapter is Chapter V of the first book: “In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump.” Milne also published When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927). About the illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (1879–1976), known as E. H. Shepard, was a painter, Punch cartoonist and the original illustrator of both Winnie-the-Pooh and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. His line drawings defined Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the rest for generations; later colouring of those decorations (as in this Magnet edition) was issued under copyright dated 1970 and 1973. He is often called “the man who drew Pooh.”. …