“If you write a very good book, and someone makes a very good film about it, the book just disappears. Consider poor Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” which most kids only know via the $400-million box office adaptation, Frozen, or, for that matter, Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” What’s amazing about Pooh’s modern cartoon-y familiarity is that as big as the Magic Kingdom is, the original not only survives, but thrives as a continued source of fascination. The characters from 1928’s smash bestseller The House on Pooh Corner live side-by-side with the cartoon iterations in a way very few originals and their Disney-fied versions do. Milne stories, which continue to co-exist alongside the better-known Disney juggernaut. The NYPL’s Winnie-the-Pooh was the real-life inspiration for the original A.A. The original Pooh is amazingly still alive, well into the 21st-century, in both literary and animated forms.

But he’s still Pooh, a bit matted down, a bit overly loved, but in great shape considering he’ll soon be 100 years old. The bear is not the red-shirted “tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff” found in cribs around the world, more a regular ole’ fuzzy variety, a simple knock-around bear.

Together, in one cage, are a young pig, a donkey, a tiger, a kangaroo, and a bear known the world over as Winnie-the-Pooh. Whether you're 5 or 55, Pooh is the bear for all ages.In the main branch of the New York Public Library, there lives a group of wild animals that call the children’s section home. Pooh ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage. Milne's classic children's stories - featuring Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin and, of course, Pooh himself - are gently humorous while teaching lessons about friendship and kindness. The nation's favourite teddy bear has been delighting generations of children for over 95 years. They are truly iconic and contributed to him being known as 'the man who drew Pooh'. This book is all the more special due to E.H.Shepard's decorations, which are shown in full, glorious colour. This collection is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children's poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we've come to expect from Milne's favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain. This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by Milne - as popular now as when they were first written. 'They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.'Ĭurl up with A.A.Milne's classic book of poetry for children, When We Were Very Young.

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