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First Press - Private Limited Edition
The private 100 hand-numbered, signed copies
Forthcoming Autumn 2026
100 Years of Pooh:
A Literary and Psychological Reflection on the Hundred Acre Wood
When a Pencil Was Enough
One hundred years after the first publication of A . A . Milne's Winnie the Pooh, Rachel Rosa invites you to return to the Hundred Acre Wood not to retell the stories, but to walk slowly through them, and to ask what they understood about childhood, friendship, and thinking, long before childhood became something to measure and manage.
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Our commitment to the unhurried mind
Scatter Press grew from a quiet belief that words still shape how we understand the world, and that books still offer something that speed cannot. We are interested in writing that allows the mind to move at a human pace, writing that leaves room for thought, for uncertainty, for noticing, and for the forming of understanding and connection.
We believe in the unhurried mind. We believe that not everything important can be summarised, measured, optimised, or reduced to bullet points. Some things must be walked around slowly, the way a child walks around a wood, noticing the same tree from different sides, returning to the same place by a slightly different path each time, and understanding more with every return.
Scatter Press publishes books, magazines, and educational writing, but underneath these different forms sits the same idea, which is that clear thinking and careful language can change how people see, and when people see differently, they often begin to live differently too.
Our educational publication, The Education Standard, and our community magazines, The Rudd and Keyworth News, are part of this same work. They are about communication, place, learning, and the small, important things that hold communities together. They are about making knowledge feel like something that belongs to everyone.
Scatter Press is also shaped by a belief that many minds move differently, and that this difference is not something to be corrected, but something to be understood and worked with. We are a neurodiverse friendly publisher because we recognise that some of the most original thinking has always come from minds that did not move in straight lines.
At Scatter Press, we are not in a hurry. We are interested in work that will still feel true in ten years’ time, in books that are kept and returned to, in writing that helps people think and feel in ways they did not quite expect.
We are interested in publishing work that lasts, and work that stays with people, and work that makes a quiet difference over time.
At Scatter Press, we create publications with a strong focus on clarity, readability, and thoughtful design, because we believe that material should feel accessible rather than overwhelming. We are especially committed to supporting neurodiverse writers and thinkers in sharing their work, recognising that some of the most valuable insights come from minds that experience the world in different and often highly perceptive ways.