I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. - A. A. Milne

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.