100yrs of Winnie-the-Pooh
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What is the opening introduction and why are we celebrating 100 years of Winnie‑the‑Pooh?
Welcome to the Books We Loved, a podcast through the Troy Public Library. I'm Olivia and I'm here with Amanda. Hello,
friends.
And today we are talking about winning the Pooh by A.A. Milne. Happy
100th birthday, Pooh Bear. Happy
100th
birthday.
It's crazy. I mean, 100 years is a long time. But because it's so classic, it feels like it's been around since the beginning of
beginning of time. Like Homer wrote the Odyssey and Winnie the Pooh, just kidding. I'd love to see Christopher Nolan's take on this. Yeah. Dark. Stark. Dramatic. Yes. Yeah. And Let's do this. Let's talk about Winnie the Pooh. So I asked Olivia to do Winnie the Pooh because there are f four original stories about the world of Christopher Robin. And the first one went, um, what was it when we were very young is a collection of poetry where we meet Christopher Robin I think when he was writing it, Christopher Robin was only about three, if I'm not mistaken. And it's cute little poems. But Winnie the Pooh is introduced in that first book, but he was called Edward Bear. Mm. Christopher Robin was A.A. Milne's son in real life.
He changed the name of Edward Bear to Winnie the Pooh after he saw Winnipeg the Bear at the London Zoo. And there's a really fun story that I will tell you guys about that. But this book, book two in the series of four, is called Winnie the Pooh and it introduces Pooh Bear and a lot of the characters This first book we see a lot of familiar characters. There's Pooh, there's Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo move into the woods. I love that there's a plot to kidnap Roo. Like so so weird and bizarre. I love these stories, they're so funny. Yes. There is no Tigger until Where's
Tigger?
She comes along in the next book. The next book. There's some effelumps, there's Rabbit being cheeky with everybody, Owl being way too smart for his own good. All these characterizations of characters we see later in the movies, they definitely start in this book. Yeah. Did you like the book? I loved it. It is really sweet, right?
Yes. I loved Tony the Pooh when I was a kid. I had a little stuffed Eeyore that I loved, so I loved Eeyore.
Oh, I forgot to say ER is in it. How fitting. Because he always is the one that feels like stress. He's got more than seasonal depression. Yeah. But he I feel so bad I forgot to mention him, but that's so apropos because he always feels forgotten by everyone. He'd
feel very right that you had forget he'd be like, well yeah, I like
Oh bother.
Oh, I love him. I loved him when I was a kid. These were like I have for had forgotten how much I loved these stories when I was a kid. I think these are the kinds of stories where and I watched the movies and the show. I think there was a show when I was young and it was like before Disney movies. It was like really young. Like three or four when I just loved Winnie the Pooh. And I think that's why I kind of forgot how much I loved it. It's so gentle. The characters are all these like sweet friends and their stories are so like gentle. Like it's sweet, like for littles, but not like picture books.
How did the real bear Winnipeg inspire A.A. Milne’s Edward Bear and become Winnie‑the‑Pooh?
But not like
They are wonderful because they feel like they're going on these huge adventures and they are. And it's all in this hundred-acre wood world. But yes, it's safe. They're gentle stories and they always come out right in the end. Yeah. I love the musings of Pooh. My favorite scene will always be when he's trying to get honey out of a tree. And he borrows a balloon from Christopher Robin. And he he rolls around in mud, floats up there, and he tries to convince himself and Christopher Robin that the bees are going to believe that he is a storm cloud.
Yeah. Yeah. So he's like, All right, stand down there and say, Tut tut, looks like rain, which is what my little niece and I always say. I love that. I know.
Love that so much. I was introduced to him too as a young kid, not in these stories necessarily. My cousins gave us one of their old storybooks when I was little, and I think it was from the original Disney movie. They turned it into a storybook, and some of the stories from this were in it, but Disney fied with the Disney illustrations of Pooh and Rabbit and everybody.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and why are we celebrating 100 years of Winnie‑the‑Pooh?
0:11–3:28
2
How did the real bear Winnipeg inspire A.A. Milne’s Edward Bear and become Winnie‑the‑Pooh?
3:28–5:53
3
Which characters are introduced in the early Pooh books and what are their original roles?
5:53–10:14
4
Why do Olivia and Amanda think Winnie‑the‑Pooh remains popular with children today?
10:14–33:12