Let me introduce the birthday boy: he is D.P. (Piglet's Friend), aka P.K. (Rabbit's Buddy), aka O.P. (Discoverer of the Pole), aka U.I.-I. (Eeyore the Comforter), aka N.H. (Tail Finder) - Winnie the Pooh bear! The famous bear turns 85 this year!
Stories character Alana Alexandra Milne first appeared on the pages of the newspaper "London Evening News"(London Evening News) on Christmas Eve 1925 in the story "The Wrong Bees" , - reports the BBC (BBC). Stories about the adventures of a cheerful bear cub with his friends Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore began to enjoy such great success that in October 1926 Milne published his first collection of short stories "Winnie the Pooh" . This year's book "Winy - Pooh and his friends" turns 85 years old.
Stories about the funny bear and his friends have been translated into more than 40 languages. In the 1960s-1970s, thanks to the retelling Boris Zakhoder , "Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all" , and then to the studio's cartoons "Soyuzmultfilm", where he voiced the bear Evgeniy Leonov , Winnie the Pooh became very popular in the Soviet Union. We will probably all agree that the naive, good-natured and modest plush bear Winnie the Pooh is one of the most famous and most beloved children's book characters of the past and present centuries.
In 1924, writer Alan Milne first came to London Zoo with his four-year-old son Christopher Robin. Here they met the bear Winnie, with whom Christopher became friends. Three years earlier, Milne gave his son a teddy bear for his first birthday. After Christopher met Winnie, this bear was named in her honor. The Winnipeg Bear (American black bear) came to the UK as the live mascot of the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps from Canada, specifically from the outskirts of the city of Winnipeg. She ended up in the Fort Harry Horse cavalry regiment on August 24, 1914, while still a bear cub. She was bought from a Canadian hunter for twenty dollars by 27-year-old regimental veterinarian Lieutenant Harry Colborne, who saved her from the fate of becoming a stuffed animal. Mr. Colbon took care of Vinnie for a long time. Already in October of the same year, the bear cub was brought along with the troops to Britain, and since the regiment was supposed to be transported to France during the First World War, in December it was decided to leave Winnie until the end of the war in the London Zoo. The bear fell in love with Londoners, and the military did not object to not taking her from the zoo even after the war.
The action of the books about Pooh takes place in the Hundred Acre Forest (in Zakhoder's translation, the Wonderful Forest). Little Christopher Robin loved to climb into the hollows of trees and play there with Pooh, so many characters in the books live in hollows, and much of the action takes place in such dwellings or on tree branches. Pooh's favorite pastimes are writing poetry and eating honey. The bear cub is “scared by long words”, he is forgetful, but often brilliant ideas come into his head. Pooh is the creator chief poet The Hundred Acre (Wonderful) Forest, he constantly composes poetry from the noise that sounds in his head. Vinny says thoughtfully about his inspiration: “After all, Poetry and Chants are not things that you find when you want, they are things that find you.”.
Interesting facts:
- According to Forbes magazine, Winnie the Pooh is the second most profitable character in the world, second only to Mickey Mouse. Each year, Winnie the Pooh generates $5.6 billion in revenue. Disney continues to produce Winnie the Pooh cartoons, television programs and merchandise.
- Winnie the Pooh is so popular in Poland that in Warsaw, Olsztyn, and Poznan streets are named after him. The first of them to receive this name was a short street in the center of Warsaw, the name of which was chosen based on the results of a survey of Warsaw children.
- Christopher Robin's toys, which became the prototypes of the book's characters, were kept in the publishing house until 1969, and are currently exhibited in the children's room of the New York Public Library.
- One of the most famous translations of books about Pooh into foreign languages- translation by Alexander Lenard into Latin language called Winnie ille Pu. On the cover of a number of publications, Vinnie is depicted in the garb of a Roman legionnaire with a short sword in his left paw. The first edition was published in 1958, and in 1960 Latin Pooh became the first book not published English language, which made the New York Times bestseller list.
- An opera was written based on the plot of Milne's books. Olga Petrova "Winnie the Pooh" in 1982. The opera was a success at six musical theaters. A review of the opera noted: "It tactfully introduced elements of modern pop music... The composer uses purely comedic techniques, sometimes humorously reminding adult listeners of well-known opera motifs.".
- Winnie the Pooh is depicted on postage stamps at least 18 states (including the USSR Post Office in 1988, the stamp is dedicated to the history of Soviet cartoons).
- Winnie the Pooh's birthday can be celebrated several times:
The following Internet sources were used in preparing the material:
1. BBC Russian -
On the calendar significant dates October 14th is designated as Winnie the Pooh's birthday. literary character and the hero of animated films.
Teddy bear Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh) was born as a literary character in the works of Alan Alexander Milne. Funny and fluffy was destined to become one of the most famous heroes children's literature of the 20th century.
Strictly speaking, exact date the birth of Winnie the Pooh is unknown to anyone, not even his creator, English writer Alan Milne. In 1921, Alan Milne gave his son a teddy bear for his birthday. After meeting his young master Christopher Robin, he received the name Winnie the Pooh. Later, the bear cub became Christopher’s “inseparable companion.” It is the boy's friendship with his beloved teddy bear inspired A. Milne to write stories about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The first book about the bear cub was published on October 14, 1926 in London.
The history of the Russian Winnie the Pooh is no less interesting. Once, in 1958, the wonderful writer and translator Boris Zakhoder was looking through the English children's encyclopedia. “It was love at first sight: I saw an image of a cute bear cub, read several poetic quotes - and rushed to look for a book...,” the writer later said.
It was thanks to Boris Zakhoder’s retelling that stories about the cheerful bear cub became popular among Soviet children, and the cartoon, where the bear was voiced by Evgeny Leonov, made Vinny a people’s favorite.
In our kindergarten Together with parents, we organized an exhibition of children's works dedicated to Winnie the Pooh's birthday. Best works participated in the regional exhibition organized by the State Budgetary Institution "KITs".
The exhibition accepted drawings, crafts, postcards, toys from various materials, made in various techniques. The main thing is that they talk about Winnie the Pooh and his friends; they could also become the author of a postcard - congratulations to the resilient bear. In total, 62 children took part in the competition.
19 of our children’s works took prizes at the regional competition. The winners received certificates and a sweet gift - "Barney"!
Every year around the world, fans of the world's most famous teddy bear celebrate Winnie the Pooh Day on January 18, the birthday of the author of the series, Alan Alexander Milne, born in 1882. If you love Winnie the Pooh, you might want to celebrate his day by reading a book or dressing yourself and/or your kids in fun costumes, but before you do, you just need to know 10 interesting facts about an adorable teddy bear that you probably don't know.
Alan and Christopher Robin Milne
2. Original Christopher Robin toys can be seen in Public library New York, where they have been since 1987. Unfortunately, Little Roo is missing from the collection as he was lost in an apple orchard in 1930
3. In 1998, British Labor leader Gwyneth Dunwoody created a campaign to return the original Christopher Robin toys to their homeland of Great Britain. However, this idea failed miserably; information about it even appeared on the cover of the New York Post
4. Dense forest based on a real place called Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Now in this forest there is a bridge called "Poohsticks", in honor of the game of the same name, which was translated into Russian as "the game of trivia". The essence of the game is that several participants throw sticks down the river, and then run to the bridge, from which they watch whose stick crosses the finish line first
5. Winnie the Pooh has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Thus he is one of the 16 fictional characters recipients of this honorary award
6. The original Winnie the Pooh was given to Christopher Robin on his first birthday (August 21, 1921) and was originally named Edward
7. During the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Trouble Day in 1968, Disney artists used approximately 1.2 million colored pencils to create nearly 100,000 character designs.
8. The real Christopher Robin named his bear the name by which he is still known today after meeting a bear named Winnie at London Zoo and encountering a swan named Pooh on a family holiday. Thus, the name Winnie the Pooh consists of the names of two completely different animals.
9. The real-life Christopher Robin suffered from bullying and ridicule from children at school because incredible success his father's books, causing him to grow up resentful of this fact. He felt that his father exploited him and his childhood
10. Every June there is a real world Pooh Sticks Championship called the World Pooh Sticks Championships. The championship is held in Oxford and anyone can take part.
Teddy bear Winnie the Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh) was born as a character in the works of Alan Alexander Milne. He became one of the most famous heroes of children's literature of the 20th century. Winnie the bear got his name from one of the real toys of the son of the writer Christopher Robin.
In 1921, Alan Milne gave his son a teddy bear purchased from a department store for his birthday. After meeting his owner Christopher Robin, he received the name Winnie the Pooh. Subsequently, the bear cub became Christopher’s “inseparable companion.”
It was the boy’s friendship with his favorite teddy bear that became the reason for the creation of works about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. On December 24, 1925, the first chapter of Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh was published in the London Evening News. The first book was published as a separate edition on October 14, 1926 in London. The second book about Winnie the Pooh, entitled The House at Pooh Corner, was published in 1928.
The writer also published two more collections of children's poems. In 1924 - “When We Were Very Little” and in 1927 - “Now We Are Six,” which contain several poems about Winnie the Pooh.
Alan Milne's prose about Winnie the Pooh is a duology. However, of the two published books, each is divided into 10 independent stories with their own plot. Therefore, all these stories can be read independently of each other.
Although the teddy bear was given to Christopher Robin on August 21, 1921, his actual birthday is considered October 14, 1926, when the first Winnie the Pooh book was published, despite the fact that some of its fragments were published earlier.
The adventures of Winnie the Pooh have become a favorite read for many generations of children; they have been translated into 25 languages (including Latin) and published in tens of millions of copies.
Origin of the character
Christopher Robin's teddy bear Winnie the Pooh was named after a female bear named Winnipeg (Winnie), who was kept at London Zoo in the 1920s.
The Winnipeg Bear (American black bear) came to the UK as the live mascot of the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps from Canada, specifically from the outskirts of the city of Winnipeg. She ended up in the Fort Harry Horse cavalry regiment on August 24, 1914, while still a bear cub (she was bought from a Canadian hunter for twenty dollars by the 27-year-old regimental veterinarian, Lieutenant Harry Colborn, who took care of her in the future). Already in October of the same year, the bear cub was brought along with the troops to Britain, and since the regiment was supposed to be transported to France during the First World War, in December it was decided to leave the animal until the end of the war in the London Zoo. Londoners fell in love with the bear, and the military did not object to not taking her from the zoo even after the war. Until the end of her days (she died on May 12, 1934), the bear was on the payroll of the veterinary corps, about which a corresponding inscription was made on her cage in 1919.
In 1924, Alan Milne first came to the zoo with his four-year-old son, who truly became friends with Winnie. After Christopher met Winnie the bear, the teddy bear was named in her honor. Subsequently, the bear was Christopher’s “inseparable companion”: “every child has a favorite toy, and every child who is alone in the family especially needs it.”
In September 1981, 61-year-old Christopher Robin Milne unveiled a life-size monument to Winnie the Bear at London Zoo.
Cartoons
Naturally, such a popular hero as Winnie the Pooh could not go unnoticed by the directors. And after 1961, the Disney studio first released short cartoons, and then many different cartoons about Winnie the Pooh on plots no longer related to the work of writer Alan Milne.
Further on the topic of these incredible stories and the adventures of friends in the Wonderful Forest, even a musical for children was released. Some literary critics They even claim that “Pooh became the most famous and beloved bear in literature.”
In our country, a cycle of three cartoons by Fyodor Khitruk, co-authored with Boris Zakhoder (1969-1972), has become especially popular. While working on the film, the director did not know about the existence of Disney cartoons about Winnie the Pooh. Later, according to Khitruk, Disney director Wolfgang Reiterman liked his version. At the same time, the fact that Soviet cartoons were created without taking into account the exclusive film rights owned by the Disney studio made it impossible for them to be shown abroad and participate in international film festivals.
Winnie the Pooh in our country
In the magazine “Murzilka” for 1939, the first two chapters of Milne’s fairy tale were published - “About Winnie Poo the Bear and the Bees” (No. 1) and “About how Winnie Poo went to visit and got into trouble” (No. 9) in translation A. Koltynina and O. Galanina. The author's name was not indicated; the subtitle was "English Fairy Tale". This translation uses the names Winnie Poo, Piglet and Christopher Robin
First full translation“Winnie the Pooh” in the USSR was published in 1958 in Lithuania, it was written by 20-year-old Lithuanian writer Virgilius Chepaitis, who used the Polish translation by Irena Tuwim. Subsequently, Chepaitis, having become acquainted with the English original, significantly revised his translation, which was republished in Lithuania several times.
In 1958, Boris Zakhoder looked through the English children's encyclopedia. “It was love at first sight: I saw a picture of a cute bear cub, read several poetic quotes - and rushed to look for the book.”
Zakhoder always emphasized that his book was not a translation, but a retelling, the fruit of Milne’s co-creation and “re-creation” in Russian, and insisted on his (co)authorship of it. Indeed, his text does not always literally follow the original. A number of findings that are absent from Milne (for example, the various titles of Pooh’s songs - Noisemakers, Screamers, Vopilki, Sopelki, Pyhtelki - or Piglet’s famous question: “Does the Heffalump love piglets? And how does he love them?”), fits well into the context of the work . Does not have a complete parallel in Milne and is not widely used capital letters(Unknown Who, Relatives and Friends of the Rabbit), frequent personification inanimate objects(Pooh approaches the “familiar puddle”), more “fairytale” vocabulary, not to mention a few hidden references to Soviet reality
Authentic Christopher Robin toys:
Thanks to Boris Zakhoder’s retelling of “Winnie the Pooh and Everything, Everything, Everything,” and then the films of the Soyuzmultfilm studio, where the bear was voiced by Evgeniy Leonov, Winnie the Pooh became very popular in our country.
The place of Winnie the Pooh in Milne's work
The series about Winnie the Pooh eclipsed all of Milne’s quite diverse and popular adult works of his time: “he cut off his path back to “adult” literature. All his attempts to escape from the clutches of the toy bear were unsuccessful.” Milne himself had a hard time with this set of circumstances, did not consider himself a children's writer and argued that he writes for children with the same responsibility as for adults.
Continuation
In 2009, a sequel to the Winnie the Pooh books, Return to the Enchanted Forest, was released in the UK, approved by the Pooh Properties Trust. The author of the book was David Benedictus, who strives to closely imitate the style and composition of Milnov's prose. The book's illustrations also focus on maintaining Shepard's style. Return to the Enchanted Forest has been translated into several languages.
The management company The Pooh Properties Trust was formed under the will of A. A. Milne. In 1961, the trustees of the foundation, Mrs. Milne and Spencer Curtis Brown, assigned exclusive rights to produce films about Winnie the Pooh to Walt Disney. A. A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, sold his rights to other owners to raise money for the treatment of his daughter Claire, who had cerebral palsy.
Dear friends! On October 14, Winnie the Pooh bear celebrates his birthday. So let's find out the story of this beloved teddy bear.
The teddy bear Winnie the Pooh was born as a character in the works of Alan Alexander Milne. He became one of the most famous heroes of children's literature of the 20th century. Winnie the bear got his name from one of the real toys of the son of the writer Christopher Robin.
In 1921, Alan Milne gave his son a teddy bear purchased from a department store for his birthday. After meeting his owner Christopher Robin, he received the name Winnie the Pooh. Subsequently, the bear cub became Christopher’s “inseparable companion.”
It was the boy’s friendship with his favorite teddy bear that became the reason for the creation of works about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. On December 24, 1925, the first chapter of Milne's book was published in the London Evening News. The first book was published as a separate edition on October 14, 1926 in London. The second book about Winnie the Pooh, entitled “The House at Pooh Edge,” was published in 1928.
The writer also published two more collections of children's poems. In 1924 - “When We Were Very Little” and in 1927 - “Now We Are Six,” which contain several poems about Winnie the Pooh.
Alan Milne's prose about Winnie the Pooh is a duology. However, of the two published books, each is divided into 10 independent stories with their own plot. Therefore, all these stories can be read independently of each other.
Although the teddy bear was given to Christopher Robin on August 21, 1921, his actual birthday is considered October 14, 1926, when the first Winnie the Pooh book was published, despite the fact that some of its fragments were published earlier.
The adventures of Winnie the Pooh have become a favorite read for many generations of children; they have been translated into 25 languages (including Latin) and published in tens of millions of copies.
Christopher Robin's teddy bear Winnie the Pooh was named after a female bear named Winnipeg (Winnie), who was kept at London Zoo in the 1920s.
The Winnipeg Bear (American black bear) came to the UK as the live mascot of the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps from Canada, specifically from the outskirts of the city of Winnipeg. She ended up in the Fort Harry Horse cavalry regiment on August 24, 1914, while still a bear cub (she was bought from a Canadian hunter for twenty dollars by the 27-year-old regimental veterinarian, Lieutenant Harry Colborn, who took care of her in the future). Already in October of the same year, the bear cub was brought along with the troops to Britain, and since the regiment was supposed to be transported to France during the First World War, in December it was decided to leave the animal until the end of the war in the London Zoo. Londoners fell in love with the bear, and the military did not object to not taking her from the zoo even after the war. Until the end of her days (she died on May 12, 1934), the bear was on the payroll of the veterinary corps, about which a corresponding inscription was made on her cage in 1919.
In 1924, Alan Milne first came to the zoo with his four-year-old son, who truly became friends with Winnie. After Christopher met Winnie the bear, the teddy bear was named in her honor. Subsequently, the bear was Christopher’s “inseparable companion”: “every child has a favorite toy, and every child who is alone in the family especially needs it.”
In September 1981, 61-year-old Christopher Robin Milne unveiled a life-size monument to Winnie the Bear at London Zoo.