SOURCE: "A. A. Milne's 'When We Were Very Young' and 'Now We Are Six': A Small World of Everyday Pleasures," in Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Children's Literature, Vol. 2, Children's Literature Association, 1987, pp. 173-82.
In the following essay, Wilson offers a close examination of the poems, and of the underlying worldview, in Milne's two books of poetry for children.
