The Tao of Pooh

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“What’s this you’re writing?… asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table.

“The Tao of Pooh,… I replied.

“The how of Pooh?… asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written.

“The Tao of Pooh,… I replied, poking his paw away with my pencil.

“It seems more like ow! of Pooh,… said Pooh, rubbing his paw.

“Well, it’s not,… I replied huffily.

“What’s it about?… asked Pooh, leaning forward and smearing another word.

“It’s about how to stay happy and calm under all circumstances!… I yelled.

“Have you read it?… asked Pooh…

…Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear, and Pooh's Way, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient Chinese principles of Taoism.

Follow the Pooh Way in this humorous and enlightening introduction to Taoism, with classic decorations by E.H.Shepard throughout. Over a million copies sold.

Have you collected all the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories and poetry collections:

• Winnie-the-Pooh
• The House at Pooh Corner
• When We Were Very Young
• Now We Are Six
• Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
• The Best Bear in All the World
• Once There Was a Bear
• Tales from the Forest
• Winter in the Wood

Review

‘Winnie-the-Pooh has always been a very special (albeit funny old) bear, not least of all because his books are filled with wonderful words of wisdom.', Stylist magazine

"Aspects of Taoism told through the characters of 'Winnie the Pooh' – I mean, does it get better?” Meghan Markle

‘Mr. Hoff gives grown-ups permission to rediscover Winnie the Pooh’ New York Times

The Tao of Pooh selected by illustrator Anita Mangan in the round up of ‘Books for a Better World’, The Guardian, May 2024

About the Author

Benjamin Hoff is American and has studied architecture, graphic design, music and find arts. He is the author of 'The Tao of Pooh'.

E.H.Shepard was born in London in 1879. He was an artist, illustrator and cartoonist and went on to draw the original decorations to accompany Milne’s classic stories, earning him the name ‘the man who drew Pooh’.