Winnie-the-Pooh
apareció en 1926 y fue seguida por The
House at Pooh Corner (1928). Winnie-the-Pooh
es un osito de peluche que adquiere vida, creado por el autor inglés A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh ha sido traducido a muchos idiomas, incluyendo el
latín. Los cuatro volúmenes de la serie han sido ilustrados por E. H. Shepard.
If you happen to have read
another book about Christopher Robin,
you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I
don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time
ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn't think
the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like
an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without
stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have
explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it.
You can't be in London for
long without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the
beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until
they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the
animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to
the Zoo, he goes to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the
third keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark
passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, and
the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and with a happy
cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this
bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears it is, but the
funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is called after Pooh, or
Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have forgotten. . . .