Winnie the Pooh / Winnie the pooh
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Autor:
Alan Alexander Mine
Country:
Italy (IT)
Book Theme:
Evergreen children’s book (8-12 years)
Publisher:
Harper Collins Publisher
Publishing Year:
2016
A.A. Milne Milne was born on January 18, 1882, in London: He began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in the 1920s. His best-known works are his two collections of children’s poetry, When We Were Young and Now We Are Six, and his two books of stories about the lovable bear Winnie-the-Pooh and his animal friends.Despite being a pacifist, in 1915, Milne served in World War I.In 1924, Milne applied his long-time talent for light verse to a collection of children’s poems.The adventures of Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, illustrated by artist Ernest H. Shepard, were all best-sellers and made Milne a household name.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Pooh, a self-described “Bear of Very Little Brain,” gets himself into all kinds of sticky situations, and the book’s 10 chapters recount his various adventures. In the first chapter, Pooh hears bees in the treetop and believes they must be making honey. After unsuccessfully attempting to climb the tree, he uses a balloon to pretend he is a cloud, but the bees are suspicious.The stories are simply written, to appeal to young readers, and full of comic moments as well as silly verses.Winnie-the-Pooh, collection of children’s stories by A.A. Milne, published in 1926. Milne wrote the episodic stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and its sequel, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), for his young son, Christopher Robin, whose toy animals were the basis for many of the characters and whose name was used for the young boy who appears in the tales as the benign master of the animals.The main character, Winnie-the-Pooh (sometimes called simply Pooh or Edward Bear), is a good-natured, yellow-furred, honey-loving bear who lives in the Forest surrounding the Hundred Acre Wood (modeled after Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England). His companions are Eeyore, a gloomy gray donkey; Piglet, a timid pig; Owl, a pontificating bird; the meddlesome Rabbit; and Kanga, an energetic kangaroo whose inquisitive baby, Roo, lives in her pouch.
