Rawad raad biography of christopher robin

ONE book can save you reading several others. From these memoirs, Last quotes extensively, and, where he is not citing them verbatim, they remain his source. There is no fresh material such as that which biographers delight in: the stash of letters at the back of a drawer, the startling recollections of the ancient aunt, and the like.

Last quickly grasps the nettle confronting every would-be biographer tackling this subject.

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Whom are we talking about? The shy old gentleman with a bit of a stammer who died in Totnes on 20 April or the little boy playing in the woods with a kindly but woefully muddled old bear? And, crucially, what is the relationship between the two? The trouble is that, while Christopher Milne grew up, Christopher Robin was never allowed to. Long into his adult life, pestered by devotees of the child that he once was, he struggled to establish his own identity.

But then, of course, neither have you and I, the latter-day readers of these tales. We recall the last of the Pooh stories. At the end, Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh set off together we know not whither.