The book 'Winnie the Pooh' by A. A. Milne is a collection of short stories featuring the teddy bear of Christopher Robin named Winnie the Pooh. These stories are a narrative within a narrative, where the narrator narrates these stories about Winnie the Pooh to Christopher Robin.
CHAPTER 1: IN WHICH WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE THE POOH AND SOME BEES AND THE STORIES BEGIN
This is the first story about the teddy bear Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin comes asking the narrator to tell him a story about the Pooh bear, as the Teddy loves hearing stories about himself, and the narrator obliges. This story is about Pooh's attempts to get honey from a honeycomb on the top of a tall tree. At first, he tries climbing it but falls down. Then he goes and borrows a blue balloon from Christopher Robin to blend in with the sky and rolls in mud to disguise himself as a black cloud. But the bees get on to the disguise and Christopher Robin has to rescue him from the bees using his toy gun.
CHAPTER 2: IN WHICH POOH GOES VISITING AND GETS INTO A TIGHT PLACE
Pooh decides to go and visit his friend Rabbit, at whose home he is sure to get something to eat. When he visits there, the Rabbit does not open the door, rather insisting that there is nobody home, as he had been planning to visit his friend Pooh. Finally, when Pooh manages to convince Rabbit that he is the same Winnie the Pooh, the Rabbit invites him in and offers him bread and honey. Pooh soon finishes the whole pot and is not able to get out through Rabbit's door. Christopher Robin, who is called for help advises that Pooh should stay there for a week till he gets thin. At the end of a week, Christopher Robin, Rabbit and Rabbit's friends together manage to pull Pooh out after a lot of effort.
CHAPTER 3: IN WHICH POOH AND PIGLET GO HUNTING AND NEARLY CATCH A WOOZLE
The story finds Piglet clearing Snow in front of his house and Pooh is walking around in circle nearby. Suddenly Piglet spots the footprints and expresses fear that it might be 'woozles'. Pooh and Piglet try to trace the footprints back, but with each time, there seem to be more footprints on the ground. They soon spot a second set of smaller footprints, and Piglet gets afraid. They find Christopher Robin in a tree, and Piglet being too scared leaves. Christopher Robin explains to Pooh how they had been following their own footprints, and they have a good laugh.
CHAPTER 4: IN WHICH EEYORE LOSES A TAIL AND POOH FINDS ONE
This story begins with Eeyore feeling down in the dumps when Pooh comes along and spots that Eeyore is missing his tail. Pooh promises to find Eeyore his tail and goes to find the Owl. The owl comes up with a plan to have Christopher Robin write a notice promising a reward to whoever finds it. Pooh keeps saying yes and no absentmindedly when he finally notices that the Owl's bell rope looks like a donkey's tail and finds Christopher Robin to pin the tail on Eeyore again.
CHAPTER 5: IN WHICH PIGLET MEETS A HEFFALUMP
Piglet and Pooh decide to catch a Heffalump and so they make a trap for it. they dig a huge pit and leave a jar of honey in it, hoping that a Heffalump would come for honey and fall into the pit. But that night Pooh gets hungry and goes to eat the pot of honey early the next morning. His head gets stuck in the pot as he tries to lick up the honey, and he cries for help. Piglet, who had come at the time to see if they had caught a Heffalump, sees Pooh with this head in a jar. He gets frightened and runs to Christopher Robin for help, who comes and realizes what had happened and laughs.
CHAPTER 6: IN WHICH EEYORE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND GETS TWO PRESENTS
Pooh finds Eeyore gloomy because nobody remembers his birthday. So pooh decides to gift him a pot of honey. On the way home to get the honey, he reminds Piglet of the birthday, and Piglet decides to get Eeyore a balloon. On the way to find Eeyore, Pooh forgets and eats the honey himself. when he realizes it, he decides to give the pot to keep something useful in and gets Owl to write Happy Birthday on it. Piglet, on the other hand, had fallen on the ballon and burst it, and so gives Eeyore the damaged balloon. Eeyore is a bit disappointed at first but later gets excited as he is able to keep the balloon in Pooh's pot. The story ends with the narrator telling Christopher that he had arranged a party for Eeyore and had given him a box of paints.
CHAPTER 7: IN WHICH KANGA AND BABY ROO COME TO THE FOREST AND PIGLET HAS A BATH
In this story, the characters Kanga and Baby Roo arrive. The other animals get suspicious of the new arrivals and Rabbit concocts a plan to kidnap Baby Roo, so to convince Kanga to leave. According to the plan, Piglet was to hop into Kanga's pouch, being of the same size as Baby Roo. But the plan fails when Kanga doesn't recognize Piglet, but thinking of him as Baby Roo, gives Piglet a bath. Piglet being scared of baths runs away as soon as possible. Baby Roo becomes great friends with Rabbit, and Pooh with Kanga, and peace is restored in the Hundred Acre Woods.
CHAPTER 8: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE
Here, Christopher Robin decides to take all the animals of the Hundred Acre Wood on an expedition to find the North Pole. Christopher has no idea what it is and thinks it is a pole stuck on the ground. They look around for it in vain, till Roo falls into a pool and Pooh rushes in with a pole to rescue Roo. Christopher Robin believes that Pooh had found the North Pole and the expedition ends successfully.
CHAPTER 9: IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER
The Hundred Acre Woods get torrential rain, and piglet being frightened of drowning writes a note and leaves it in a bottle. Pooh finds it and takes it to Christopher Robin, who sends Owl to tell Piglet that rescue is on the way. They brainstorm together and Pooh comes up with a solution of using Christopher Robin's umbrella as a boat and so they save Piglet.
CHAPTER 10: IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN GIVES POOH A PARTY AND WE SAY GOOD-BYE
In this story, Christopher Robin gives Pooh a party for his brainwave on how to rescue Piglet. At the party, as a gift is passed to Pooh, Eeyore mistakes the gift as being for himself and makes a speech. Christopher Robin corrects the mistake and Pooh opens the gift which contains a Special Pencil Case marked HB for Helping Bear and pencils marked BB for Brave Bear and the Party ends on a satisfied note.
As the stories end, Pooh is taken back to his room by Christopher Robin in the same as he was brought, with his head bumping on the stairs.
