Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne
- A. A. Milne
Artwork by Kevin Peterson
A. A. Milne
Born: January 18, 1882, Hampstead, United Kingdom
Died: January 31, 1956, Hartfield, United Kingdom
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his illustrations ofanthropomorphic characters in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame andWinnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.
Jenny Uglow on the artist E.H. Shepard, famous for his illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows, and his lesser-known work, sketches from the trenches of World War I