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Isn’t it funny
How a Bear likes honey
Buzz buzz
I wonder why he does
"Just over a century ago, the satirical writer and playwright A.A. Milne,
suffering from the after-effects of fighting in the trenches of World War I,
started writing some poems for his only child, Christopher Robin.
They were published in a collection,
When We Were Very Young and they caused
a literary sensation for a reading public looking for comfort in difficult
times.
Two years later, Milne followed up with the stories of the Hundred Acre Wood in
his book
Winnie-the-Pooh, based on the tangle of scrub and trees at the
bottom of his garden and populated by Christopher Robin’s toys.
Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo, and Owl, each
distinctive characters in their own right, chatted and played, going on
adventures, solving problems, presided over by Christopher Robin, the wise
child who knows what to do.
Not every critic loved it: “Tonstant Reader fwowed up” wrote the acerbic
Dorothy Parker in her
New Yorker Constant Reader column. She found the
stories saccharine and cloying. But for those who enjoyed the simple humour,
cameraderie and warmth of the stories, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends became
part of the children’s literary canon. And so they have remained to this day."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
