All the poems on this page were written by A.A. Milne himself, And are taken from the books he wrote : When we were very Young, Now we are Six, Winnie The Pooh and The house at pooh corner. The stories are extracts form other Winnie The Pooh materials.
EEYORES GARDEN
So Rabbit very kindly fetched some seed and handed them to Eeyore. "Plant the seeds in a very sunny place and keep watering them." Rabbit told Eeyore. "And you will have some very pretty flowers all of your own."
Eeyore was so pleased with the seeds rabbit had given him, "Thank you," he said. Eeyore hurried home very quickly and planted the seeds in his garden straight away, and then he watered them just as rabbit had told him. "I can't wait to have some pretty flowers of my own," said Eeyore. But by lunch time the flowers hadn't grown.
Eeyore thought to himself and decided that maybe his flowers needed watering again and went to fetch his watering can and watered the seeds. Just then Pooh and Piglet came walking by and asked Eeyore what was wrong. "Rabbit gave me some seeds to grow in my garden, I watered them, and they did not grow, so i watered them again, now I am waiting to see if they will grow." But still no flowers.
"But Eeyore" said Pooh "Flowers can take a long time to grow." Eeyore felt so sad that he walked off. Pooh decided that it would be a good idea to go and see rabbit.
Pooh and Piglet told rabbit about Eeyore flowers and how very upset he was." So rabbit gave Pooh and Piglet some flowering plants, they took them too Eeyore's garden and planted them as a surprise.
When Eeyore came back his flowers had grown and he was so very happy, "My flowers grew after all." said Eeyore.
THE STRANGE FLOWER
"Well. i've never seen a flower like that before," Owl muttered, staring at it. " I wonder what it's called?" Owl was so puzzled about the strange flower, he went to ask rabbit if he knew what it was called. "mmm, long red and white leaves with a pink middle," murmured rabbit, looking through his flower books.
" I can't see anything like that in here. Id better come and look." So he followed Owl through the wood to the bush where the flower was growing. "See," said Owl pointing to the red and white flower. "it's so bright and unusual, I noticed it right away." "Goodness, I've never seen a flower like that!" said Rabbit.
He searched through his flower book again. "And there's nothing like it in the book. I think that we have discovered a rare flower!" "Really? How wonderful!" said Owl. Just then Kanga and Roo came along. "There it is!" cried roo, pointing to the flower.
"I told you it must be around here." Owl and Rabbit watched in astonishment as Roo ran over to the flower, picked it up and gave it Kanga. "You can't pick that, it's a rare flower!" gasped Rabbit. "It might be the only one of it's kind." "It certainly is" smiled Kanga.
"It's the paper flower from my bonnet. It fell out when I went for a walk earlier." Rabbit and Owl did feel silly. Fancy them not noticing that their rare flower was made of paper.
