Buch: The Complete Winnie-the

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Buch: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh von A.A. Milne
Beigesteuert von Heike Hartmann-Heesch
Sunday, 3. September 2006
1. Gedanke: Oh nein! Da ist mir Kollege Steffen Roye doch glatt zuvorgekommen!
2. Gedanke: Ach was! Macht aber nichts. Doppelt hält eh besser und hier geht’s ja nicht um das
Geburtstagshörbuch sondern um das Buch an sich… Und: Es ist doch schön zu sehen, wie sich manche Gedanken
dann ähneln. Also dann!
As long as I can remember, Winnie the Pooh has always been one of my favourites, ever since my mother read some of
the stories to me (born in 1969). I especially liked the one “In which Eeyore has a Birthday and gets Two
Presents”, of which I naturally made “in which everyone has a birthday and gets two
presents”…and “In which Christopher Robin leads an Expotition to the North Pole”, after which
I definitely and finally decided to become a polar explorer. This only changed a couple of years later (I could very well
read by myself then) after I´d been reading the last chapter of “The House at Pooh Corner”. I then decided
I´d rather become a magician.
A.A. Milne´s Pooh stories have – just as they did with me! – delighted generations of children since they
first appeared almost 80 years ago. This volume brings together the probably two best-loved books: “Winnie-thePooh” and “The House at Pooh Corner” and we are allowed to accompany Winnie-the-Pooh,
Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger and all other friends on their various adventures and escapades in the
“Hundred Acre Wood”.
The book is illustrated throughout with the original black and white line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard which contribute
so much to the charm of the stories and have somehow immortalized the image of the probably world´s best loved bear.
Well, buy a copy of this volume or look out for your own old one in the attic, follow Winnie-the-Pooh and me into the
magical world of children´s language to “Eeyore´s Gloomy Place”, to the “Big Stones and
Rox” and the North Pole; learn that an introduction is of course to introduce people and that, if people have
already been introduced and are now to say goodbye, the opposite of an introduction naturally is a contradiction. (So
says Owl and he must know because he luckily always keeps his head when Pooh is still asking “The what of a
what?”).
But, of course, it “isn´t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there…and anybody who is
Friendly with Bears can find it.” Says A.A. Milne in his “Contradiction” to “The House at Pooh
Corner”. And, of course, he should know even better.
For further reading, catch a glimpse into “MERIAN Südengland”, August 8th 1994. You´ll find a wonderful
lovingly article by Simon Worrall and Roman Bezjak (photographs) there on “Pu der Bär, Spurensuche im 160Morgen-Wald”, and you´ll get to love the somewhat peculiar landscape of Milne´s Hartfield in Sussex, which is as
characteristically as impressively described in the Pooh books. This, of course, means that we all are able to find Pooh´s
forest. We simply have to drive south from Hartfield on the B 2026 in direction to Cotchford Farm, where Milne had been
living from 1925 until his death in 1956 surrounded by Posingford Woods and Ashdown Forest…
A.A. Milne, The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh, Chancellor Press, ISBN 1-85152-090-2
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And please note: Cotchford Farm is the first house on the left of Cotchford Lane. And don´t be irritated if you not only
meet other Pooh fans there but also Rolling Stones ones – Brian Jones himself owned this house for a short time
before he was found dead in the swimming pool in 1969.
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