Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
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| Winnie-the-Pooh | |
 1st edition |
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| Author | A. A. Milne |
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| Illustrator | E. H. Shepard |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Methuen & Co. Ltd. (London) |
| Publication date | October 14, 1926 |
| Media type | print (hardback & paperback) |
| Followed by | The House at Pooh Corner |
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne. It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled "In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet Has a Bath." The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner.
Portions of the book were adapted from previously published stories. The first chapter, for instance, was adapted from "The Wrong Sort of Bees", a story published in the London Evening News in its issue for Christmas Eve 1925. The chapters in the book can be read independently of each other, as they are episodic in nature and plots do not carry over from one chapter to the next.
The book has been translated into over 25 languages, including a Latin translation called Winnie Ille Pu.
[edit] Contents
- In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin
- In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
- In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
- In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
- In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
- In Which Eeyore has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
- In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath
- In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
- In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
- In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party and We Say Goodbye
[edit] Translations
The work has been translated into many languages, including:
- Latin: Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the first foreign-language book to be featured on the New York Times Best Seller List, and is the only book in Latin ever to have been featured therein.
- Esperanto: Winnie-La-Pu, translated by Ivy Kellerman Reed and Ralph A. Lewin. Foreword by Humphrey Tonkin. 1st edition: Dutton, 1972, 2nd edition UEA, Rotterdam, 1992.
[edit] Adaptations
The book "Winnie the Pooh" is the second in a series of books published in the 1920s about Winnie the Pooh and friends. These books were themselves adapted from a collection of stories penned by Milne and originally published in Punch Magazine, St. Nicholas Magazine, Vanity Fair and others, prior to publication in book form. A variety of famous illustrators were hired by the magazines to decorate Milne's text including J. H. Dowd, Reginald Birch, E. H. Shepard, A. H. Watson and others. According to a 1998 article published in the Queens Quarterly 105/4, by Ross Kilpatrick entitled "Winnie the Pooh and the Canadian Connection" The first chapter of Milne's book entitled "Winnie-the-Pooh" was apparently adapted by Milne from an earlier work entitled "Teddy Bear's Bee Tree," by Canadian author Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. After Disney acquired certain rights to Pooh in the 1960s, The Milne chapters were subsequently adapted by Disney in its cartoon featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Other chapters were also adapted into Disney's later Pooh cartoon featurettes, while Chapter 7 was adapted into an episode of the Saturday morning cartoon The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Disney also released chapter 2 in book form, as "Winnie the Pooh meets Gopher", and chapter 6 as "Eeyore's Birthday".
