A. A. Milne Mystery" (although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, "said goodbye to all that in 70,000 words" (the approximate length of his four principal children's books), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older. Another reason Milne stopped writing children's books, and especially about Winnie-the-Pooh, was that he felt "amazement and disgust" over the fame his son was exposed to, and said that "I feel that the legal Christopher Robin
Winnie-the-Pooh (book) Bath". The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, "The House at Pooh Corner". In 2003, "Winnie the Pooh" was listed at number 7 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The book "Winnie-the-Pooh" is the first in a series of books published in the 1920s about Winnie the Pooh and friends. In creating these volumes, Milne adapted stories he had originally published in "Punch", "St. Nicholas Magazine", "Vanity Fair" and other periodicals. Illustrations for those magazines had been provided by J. H. Dowd, Reginald Birch, E. H. Shepard, A. H. Watson and others. The first