bambpoohAhead of Books Are My Bag’s Bookshop Day on Saturday 8th October, Gill Hart from Lindum Books in Bailgate, Lincoln, is ready to celebrate along with a new nonagenarian…

Winnie the Pooh, celebrates an important anniversary this year, it being 90 years since A. A. Milne wrote the very first Pooh story.

In all that time Pooh has made a special place for himself in the hearts of many generations of readers of all ages.

His apparently simple sayings and words of wisdom remain in our minds long after we have grown up!

Whether we first met Pooh through the original books or the Disney movie, at this time of year who doesn’t at some time remember A Rather Blustery Day?

A Rather Blustery Day
Hum, dum, dum, dee, dee, dum
Hum, dum, dum
Oh the wind is lashing lusterly
And the trees are thrashing thrusterly
And the leaves are rustling gusterly
So it’s rather safe to say
That it seems that it may turn out to be
It feels that it will undoubteadly
Looks like a rather blustery day today
It seems that it may turn out to be
Feels that it will undoubteadly
Looks like a rather blustery day today

bamblogoThis year to celebrate Bookshop Day on Saturday 8th October, Books Are My Bag, a nationwide campaign to celebrate bookshops, has chosen Winnie the Pooh to feature on their special limited edition children’s tote bag. We will have the bags in Lindum Books on Saturday as long as stocks last, free with purchases of £15 or more on children’s books.

(There will also be bags for grownups! These will be; the Books Are My Bag Tote – free with a purchase of £15 or more or to buy at £2.99, and the limited edition Coralie Bickford-Smith Tote – free with a purchase of £25 or more or to buy at £10.99).

Visit Books Are My Bag and Lindum Books for further information.