Hi again
guys!
Yes, I
know. He was not the author who won our selection, but for me he is still the
best because of one simple reason: he is the author of Winnie the Pooh!! Today
I will speak about him and his story because I found it really interesting y I
think he deserves to have a post in my blog.
First of
all we need to know him a little bit, to understand his story. Milne born in 1882 and died in 1956. He was from London, and he
was at the same time novelist, playwright and poet but in the War I he joined
the British Army and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Because of that he wrote
some books about war like for example, A denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934)
and War with Honour (1940).
These books had not enough success and he tried to do poems, but
neither were successful. The writings really made him
famous were the stories of Winnie the Pooh.
It all started when he was in the army. The brigade had a real bear as
a pet called Winnie. When the war finished Milner decided to take his son to
the zoo to visit the bear. The child liked the bear so much that he decided to
call his old teddy bear Winnie. Milne began to tell him stories based on his
stuffed animals and the bear was the main character in these stories.
These are
his child's stuffed animals, which are still preserved:
Another interesting fact was that these Winnie the Pooh
stories took place in Ashdown Forest in England, where Milne and his soon usually
walked. He wrote these
stories but the first one was a poem called Teddy bear written when Milne had not called him Pooh yet. Then the bear appeared
in the “London Evening News” in a story called “The wrong sort of bees” and from
this moment he began to have success.
When he died, Disney bought the rights of his stories to create Pooh
cartoons. Nowadays it is one of the most
known children's series in the world. Because of that the A.A. Milne’s family
received 350.000.000 $!!!
For me it is a really amazing story and I learned a lot doing this
activity. I never thought that Winnie the Pooh is a real bear!!!
Hi Rocío, I've really enjoyed reading your blog about our author, especially when you say that Milne is the best of all the authors just for the fact of writing Winnie the Pooh. Jajajaja!! (I really think so too).
ResponderEliminarLike you, I think it's a very interesting story and full of good anecdotes.
First of all, I found a very good idea you to start talking about his history for a better understanding of the context of the author; and I would add that the books he wrote about the First World War were sort of articles in order to learn more about the ideals of the British Army and to denounce the acts carried out by Nazis.
To continue, I think you've summarized in a very good way how Winnie the Pooh idea arose, because of the group work of the author we did, providing ideas and summarizing among all the main ideas of the author.
Finally, the fact that Disney bought the rights of Winnie the Pooh by an enormous amount of money, that the family received, was the one that most caught my attention.
Like you, I never would have thought that Winnie was a real bear.
Whenever you learn something new!