Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne about his son Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh and the other toy animals. What was it like to be the small boy about whom they were written - with the long hair, the smock and the Wellington boots?
At the age of 54 Christopher Milne looks back and comes to terms with Christopher Robin, the child who never grows old, who has always followed him about, and who has often made his life a misery. For as he grew older and he and his prep school contemporaries began to put away childish things, he became increasingly aware of his burden and of his desire to escape from Christopher Robin.
The book is about the life of the real Christopher Robin. It is therefore about the background of the poems and stories -the animals, the woods and river-and shows how much the real world and the fictional world corresponded.