Winnie the Pooh Turns 100: Still Our Silly Old Bear

<![CDATA[Lots of us are readers, and that’s an unalloyed good thing. Some of us started reading at a very early age; for me, it was somewhere around four. When I went to kindergarten, I remember having to go see the principal and read to her, because the teacher wasn’t sure how to deal with a kindergartner who already knew how to read, that being the first major hurdle in most of my peers’ formal education. I thought I was in trouble. But it all worked out, and while my classmates were learning the ABCs I already knew how to piece together, the teacher, as instructed by the school principal, just let me read.]]>