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1. Alan Alexander Milne

2. A. A. Milne (1882 –1956) was born in Hampstead, London. He was
raised by his mother Sarah Marie and Scottish father John Vine Milne, a
private school headmaster. Milne received his early education from
Westminster School in London.

3. Then he earned a mathematics scholarship to study at Trinity
College, Cambridge. During his years in college he provided his
services as a writer and editor for a student magazine, Granta.

4. Upon completion of his graduation, Milne decided to move to
London as he found his passion for writing. His writing was
recognized by a British literary magazine, Punch. He contributed
essays and humorous poetry in the magazine for eight years.

5. Despite Milne’s stance on pacifism, during World War I he joined British
Army as an officer. As his health started deteriorating, he was recruited to
produce propaganda articles in Military Intelligence. In 1919, he was
discharged and settled in London after getting married. Milne made his
writing debut with, Wurzel-Flummer, a one-act farce, which he wrote during
his military service.

6. Later he denounced war in his literary piece Peace with Honour (1934).
Subsequent to war Milne produced a number of plays that earned him
success as a playwright. His early works include The Dover
Road (1921) and Mr. Pim Passes By (1921). Both the plays successfully
garnered positive reviews by the critics.

7. During the period of 1903 to 1925 he wrote
18 plays and 3 novels. Milne offered his
services as a screenwriter to the nascent
British film industry. The screenplays he
worked on include The
Bump, Bookworms and Twice Two; Five
Pound Reward. Milne produced a handful of
novels during this period.

8. One of his detective novels The Red House Mystery was published
in 1922. In addition to Milne’s other works, he also adapted a
novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame for theater. The
adapted play was named Toad of Toad Hall (1929).

9. Another extremely popular piece Jane Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice was adapted into play as Miss Elizabeth Bennet in 1936.
In fact, he adapted his own play into novel, titled Mr. Pim (1921).

10. Subsequently, his works diversified into children’s poems and stories.
Becoming a father in 1920, he started working on a children’s poem
collection, When We Were Very Young, which was published in 1924.
A short story collection, Gallery of Children, came out next year
which also laid grounds for Winnie-the-Pooh books.

11. Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy
named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and
various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the
bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear,
originally named "Edward," was renamed "Winnie" after a Canadian black
bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot
in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh" comes
from a swan the young Milne named "Pooh."

12. Children’s all-time favorite character, Pooh, made its first appearance
in the poem, Teddy Bear. The poem was published in February 1924
in a magazine Punch and republished in When We Were Very
Young. Pooh first appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas
Eve, 1925, in a story called "The Wrong Sort Of Bees."

13. Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The
House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

14. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are
Six, was published in 1927.

15. More Pooh story books followed and each character was illustrated
by E. H. Shepard. The inspiration for the work was Milne’s own son,
Christopher Robin. In 1958 A. A. Milne won Lewis Carroll Shelf
Award for The World of Pooh.

17. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo
and Tigger, were incorporated into A. A. Milne's stories, and two more
characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne's imagination.
Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now on display in New York
where 750,000 people visit them every year.

18. The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from
Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South
East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the
northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm.

20. Appearance
 Winnie – the – Pooh is very surprising.
 He is not small or tall.
 He is fat.
 He has big brown eyes, a small nose and always
smiling lips.
 Winnie wears a beautiful red T-shirt.

21. Character
 Winnie – the – Pooh is very unusual.
 He is very kind, friendly, willing to help.
 He is clever and polite.
 He is shy, slow and very, very lazy.
 More than anything in his life he loves
honey.

22. After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to
the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which
has made many Pooh cartoon movies.

23. Characters of the American cartoon

26. In the Soviet Union three cartoons about Winnie
and his friends were created from 1969 till 1971
by Fyodor Khitruk.
Winnie-the-Pooh was translated by Boris
Zakhoder. He was born in 1918 and died in 2000.

27. Winnie – the – Pooh from the Soviet cartoon

33. Winnie – the – Pooh’s Star on Hollywood
Walk of Fame.

35. Despite the success of his children’s book, Milne was not
content with the state of affair as he was only expected to write
in that particular genre. He wanted to pursue writing for mature
audience. He kept working on short stories and novels and
remained popular in Britain and American, although he lost his
adult audience by 1930s. His autobiography, It’s Too Late Now,
was published in 1939.