Winnie the Pooh and all, all, all ... let them know! Bashny.Net

Ever wonder about where this teddy chudesnik, rastirazhirovanny in cartoons and booklets for children ... It's funny sometimes, a child of course, came up with the idea that this is a Disney character ... and who do this Christopher Robin ... and from there took a tiger and all-all-all ...

The story of Winnie the Pooh, actually - the story of the people who loved, dreamed ...
Winnie the Pooh (Winnie Pooh), certainly the most famous bear. Prototypes for its creation served just two bear. One of them was made by the English JKFarnell, and another German company «Steiff». Bear Alpha British firm JKFarnell, was bought by the wife of the writer Alan Alexander Milne in a birthday gift to their son Christopher Robin in 1921goda. This was a shaggy mohair bear, with small bright eyes, dlinnenky and sad. Christopher called him Pooh. The first part of the name for his friend, he liked it borrowed from the London Zoo North American bear, and the second part of a swan, whom he helped during the holidays in Sussex. Source

(pictured with his father Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh)





Published v1924, the poem "When we were young," Alan Milne mentions a bear, but a bear that has no name. In the second book, which was published in 1926, he introduced the world to bear Milne Winnie the Pooh. His legendary name now knows every kid. Writer Alan Milne borrowed from his favorite bear his son, Christopher.

(photo collection of Christopher Robin, the authenticity of which is stored in the New York Public Library)



Piglet, Winnie, Tigger, Kanga, IA ...
(pictured)



The book was illustrated famous artist Ernest Shephard. Model for all pictures in the book were the toys of Christopher with one exception. The prototype of a drawing of Winnie the Pooh teddy bear began, but Christopher Robin, and son's Ernest Shephard. That bear was called «Growler» (Grumpy), and it was made on the German company «Steiff», and in contrast to the bear Alpha company JKFarnell was very plump.

(pictured cover records, around 1940. The images are based on illustrations Shephard)



All the sketches were made in black and white. When in the seventies Shephard offered to make drawings in color, it already was 90 years old. However, he managed to complete the job. However, some people in black and white like Winnie the Pooh, even more than his color portraits. Today, the original sketches are stored in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the main figures in the New York Public Library. Milne's book translated into twenty languages, and is impossible to imagine children's literature without these characters. Since the thirties, many firms, including "Chad Valley" and the British toy company, started producing soft toys, kids favorite characters in the book.

(photo Christopher Robin and Winnie the same) Later, one of the companies Slezingera Stephen bought the right to trade in a series of Winnie the Pooh in the United States and Canada. In 1960, Walt Disney took over all rights to Winnie the Pooh. Then the scandal erupted. Who would have thought that it would be so much noise because of the cute bear, bought in London shop "Herrods" in 1921.

(picture ... there is not much need to explain ... and yet ... Disney Winnie the Pooh)



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