Now We Are Six

Now We Are Six (1927) is A. A. Milne's second collection of children's poems, illustrated by E. H. Shepard and written with his son Christopher Robin in mind. Thirty-five verses follow a child's world of play, illness, animals and growing up, from "Sneezles" and "Us Two" to "The End," in which a six-year-old decides to stay that age forever. Eleven poems bring in Winnie-the-Pooh, and the book followed When We Were Very Young and the first Pooh novel.

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Reese Witherspoon: “My favourite book as a child was... Now We Are Six, a collection of children's poetry by AA Milne. My grandmother would read this to me all the time. I just loved hearing her act out these poems”