Ramakrishnan, Sibila
(2017)
Learning through A. A. Milne's Winnie the
Pooh Books.
Language and Language Teaching, 6 (1).
pp. 31-35.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
In writing Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at
Pooh Corner, even though A. A. Milne's
intentions are didactic, he plays along with
the child in them, i.e. his son, and his
intentions get concealed in the pleasure of
storytelling. The resultant literature leaves
space for interpretations of the text based on
the child's cognition and learning because of
Milne's realistic portrayal of children's minds
through his characters. One of the possible
explanations for the origin of the Pooh books
is that Christopher Robin, as a child actually,
fully or partially, lived these tales during his
playtime, and his tropes and games with his
toys were thematically represented and
narrated by Milne. He explains this in his
autobiography, It's too Late now:
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