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Word: heffalumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heffalumps & Wallaboos. The verses and stories that were to be When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, were based on the doings of his three-year-old son, Christopher Robin Milne,* who insisted on calling himself Billy Moon. As Christopher Robin, Billy eventually became a fixture in thousands of nurseries in England and the U.S. If he went to the zoo or to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, his father put it all into rhyme. Even his evening prayers ("Oh! God Bless Daddy -I quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Man Who Hated Whimsy | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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