Pooh Corner, Homage to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh |
  Nov 22 2005, 03:52 PM
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Assistant Shopkeeper at Flourish and Blotts  Posts: 1,583 Joined: 7:23am January 28, 2005 Location: Upton Park   |
It is hard to remember AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh, when the world seems to more familiar with Disney's versions. Pooh has a special place inside my heart, as well as a number of Brits. I am fortunate enough to live some 30 minutes drive from the place where the books are set, Hartfield (see here...) So in a way, Pooh is a local hero. Arthur Conan Doyle also has local connections, but I am not a great crime novel buff, so i'll leave it to somebody else to talk about him.
Funnily enough, I've never the opportunity to read the books. So in a way it is a bit like living in Stratford upon Avon and not read Shakespeare. How do friends on this forum find the original Winnie the Pooh? -------------------- Come on you irons...  |
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Nov 22 2005, 04:31 PM
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In Charge of Invisible Books of Invisibility Posts: 1,163 Joined: 9:01pm July 25, 2005 Location: in a little house in DeSmet, South Dakota |
I'm not familiar with Disney versions of literature - I've seen Disney's Snow White and Robin Hood and that's about it. I know the Disney Pooh dolls because my nephew has one. But I don't consider Winnie the Pooh to be Disney at all, he's very A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard to me!
I love :heart: Winnie the Pooh, who lived under the name of Sanders.  It's the first book I read in English (I'm Dutch), at the age of ten I believe. I even did a lecture about Winnie the Pooh in class when I was 11. I love Milne's sense of humour and I love Shepard's dreamy illustrations - love his Wind in the Willows illustrations too by the way.
-------------------- ~~Proud member of the Ingalwings Society~~
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Nov 22 2005, 06:25 PM
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Chief Mischief-Maker  Posts: 8,572 Joined: 5:07pm January 28, 2005 Location: The Marauder's Map never lies ... |
I love the original Winnie the Pooh as well, from Eeyore and Piglet through to the Heffalump and my all time favourite character - Tigger. :)
Tigger was there, feeling Bouncy again already. "Yes," said Christopher Robin. "Tigger's here." :D -------------------- Proud Gryffindor
  and OPAST member"Hallows," murmured Dumbledore, "not Horcruxes. Precisely."  |
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Nov 22 2005, 07:16 PM
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Official Singer of the Sorting Hat Song Posts: 6,606 Joined: 3:12pm July 22, 2005 Location: Lost in Hermione's beaded bag  |
Ingalls, I read your reference to Disney's Snow White & Robin Hood as an actual title at first and then realized it was two movies. But I started to laugh afterwards as it is a pretty intriguing idea. LOL.
I love the Milne poems as well. Particularly the one about the bit of butter for the royal slice of bread and James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George du Pree (Commonly know as Jim). I also had a Russian copy once-- I don't speak Russian --and found the illustrations hilariously Pooh a la Russe. I don't like what Disney has done to him of late. The first version wasn't so bad, but the stuff now is inexcusable. Ah, well, I guess the real Pooh is still back at the 100 acre wood. (Those daring people trying to translate Harry Potter from the Latin might try Winnie ille Pooh, which I think was the first of those curious pop Latin titles. Followed Maria Poppina) -------------------- Come the words that bubble
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Nov 22 2005, 07:30 PM
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Fortescue's Spoon Polisher Posts: 3,539 Joined: 1:29pm March 16, 2005 |
David English, Have you seen Dr. Seuss books in Latin? Cattus Petasatus (Cat In The Hat)
Virent Ova! Viret Perna! (Green Eggs And Ham) Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit ( How the Grinch Stole Christmas) Anywho, Winnie the pooh is my favorite! (as I post on this Blustery day} I loved them as a child and I read them to my children when they were young. "Trespassers Wil" is one of my favorites as is when Pooh fell in the Gorse Bush. (I am reminded of it often when I see Arianhod's Signature!) -------------------- |
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Nov 22 2005, 08:10 PM
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Assistant Stargazer to Firenze  Posts: 1,092 Joined: 12:37pm July 16, 2005 Location: I want to be a part of it ... New York, New York |
Yay! A Milne thread! Oh, how I love A.A. Milne and how I loathe the modernized Pooh versions. They just lack that subtle charm and...and....they lack....tiddley-poms!
My favorite is The House On Pooh Corner, but I also love Winnie The Pooh, When We Were Very Young and probably anything that Milne has written, though I haven't read his plays and works for adults. Has anyone read them? --------------------  I called it - June 2007 |
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Nov 23 2005, 02:27 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 127 Joined: 7:19am September 28, 2005 Location: Victoria, Australia |
Yes I love the original, the real Winnie the Pooh. Pooh sticks are a game my whole family plays whenever we cross a footbridge over a river, & I still find it hard to walk on the lines in the footpath, I know those bears are watching me somewhere. :p
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Nov 23 2005, 05:01 AM
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In Charge of Invisible Books of Invisibility Posts: 1,163 Joined: 9:01pm July 25, 2005 Location: in a little house in DeSmet, South Dakota |
Love that James James poem too David, and the others from When we were very young & Now we are six.
'Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, "Where are you going today?" says Pooh: "Well that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together," says Pooh, says he. "Let's go together," says Pooh.' Trespassers Will! And yes Witherwings, the tiddely-pom song when Pooh and Piglet break down Eeyore's house and use the material to build a new one for him. I love :heart: Eeyore, he's my favourite character. I have a thing for donkeys anyway, and for miserable grumpy people.I've read Winnie Ille Pu in secondary school, very good! :offtopic: Last week my husband brought home a Latin Bommel comic (by Marten Toonder, best intellectual comic in the world, very critical on modern society, hilarious) called De Sollidaea Liberanda (Sollidee is a fictitious country) - I love all these Latin translations, Latin is fun, the more people know that the better. I didn't know there was a Maria Poppina! Which reminds me: I said I didn't know many Disney films, and only love Robin Hood, but that's not true! I love Mary Poppins too! Even though it doesn't look like the original Pamela Travers books. I bet that Snow White & Robin Hood would be a great film David!  Maybe Witherwings can make it, she has ambitions in that direction!
-------------------- ~~Proud member of the Ingalwings Society~~
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Nov 23 2005, 05:34 PM
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Fortescue's Spoon Polisher Posts: 3,539 Joined: 1:29pm March 16, 2005 |
I had fogotten about Pooh Sticks! (sigh)
a bit off topic, I worked at a theater and the man who was the voice of Piglet for Disney acted in a play there (Believe it or not, it was "Our Town" and he was the Stage Manager. ) He autographed a book for my children -------------------- |
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Nov 24 2005, 11:19 PM
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Diagon Alley Entrepreneur Posts: 4,317 Joined: 2:49am June 9, 2005 Location: Somewhere too mysterious to mention... |
I love Winnie-the-Pooh, and don't really like the Disney version. The originals portray Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger so much better!!!
And gosh, i've never played Pooh sticks in a long time!!! -------------------- Signature in development... thanks to Procrastinators United! It should come tomorrow...
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