The disease is mild. Milne Alan Alexander: biography, career, personal life

The creator of one of the favorite children's characters lived and worked in this house. Alan Alexander Milne.

The sale of this historic house is being handled by the international real estate agency Savills. The Milne home is called Cochford Farm. It is located in the town of Ashdown Forest in Sussex. The house was built in the 15th century, and the Milne family moved into it in 1925.

The writer's son Christopher Robin Milne spent his childhood in this house, and the teddy bear is named after one of Christopher Milne's real toys.

The house has six bedrooms. It is located on a vast estate of several hectares. In the garden near the house you can see a monument to Christopher Robin, as well as solar panels depicting the main characters of Milne’s story: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit and Owl. All these statues were created by order of Dorothy Milne, the writer's wife.

The Cochford Farm estate was previously owned by The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Three years after purchasing the estate, the musician died.

Alan Alexander Milne was born in 1882 in Kilburn, London.
He was the third and youngest son of John (John Vince Milne) and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham).

His father, John Milne, ran a small private school, Henley House School, famous for the fact that H.G. Wells taught there (in 1889-1890). All the Milnov children studied within its walls at one time.

Milne attended Westminster School and then the famous Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1903.

At the university, Milne begins to write poetry and stories and soon becomes editor of the student magazine Grant. He usually wrote with his brother Kenneth, signing notes with the initials AKM.
Milne's work was noticed, and in 1906 the British humor magazine Punch began collaborating with him, and Milne subsequently became an assistant editor there. Writes articles, short stories, feuilletons.

Through his work at the magazine, Milne met Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt (1890-1971). She was the goddaughter of Milne's chief, Owen Seaman (who is said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore). One day, going to Dorothy's birthday party, Owen invited a young journalist with him.

In 1913 Milne married Dorothy, and from this marriage one son, Christopher, was born.

Christopher Robin with his mother Dorothy Milne

In 1925 Milne bought his home, Cotchford Farm, and the family settled there.
When his son was three years old, Milne began writing poems about and for him.

Alan Alexander Milne dreamed of earning fame as a great detective writer and wrote plays and short stories. But when, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1925, the first chapter of Pooh, “in which we first meet Winnie the Pooh and the bees,” was published in the London evening newspaper and broadcast on BBC radio, the first step was taken towards Milne’s recognition as a classic of children’s books.

Milne was convinced that he wrote neither children's prose nor children's poetry. He spoke to the child inside each of us. By the way, he never read his Pooh stories to his son, Christopher Robin, although he acknowledged the decisive role of his wife, Dorothy, and son in the writing and the very fact of the appearance of Winnie the Pooh.

Alan Alexander Milne with his son Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh 1920s

Christopher Robin's room, 1920s

In 1924, Alan Milne first came to the zoo with his four-year-old son Christopher Robin, who truly became friends with the bear Winnie, even feeding her sweet milk. Three years earlier, Milne bought an Alpha Farnell teddy bear (see photo) from Harrods and gave his son a teddy bear (see photo) for his first birthday. After the owner met Winnie, this bear received a name in honor of his beloved bear. The boy even came up with a new name for him - Winnie Pooh. The former Teddy got the word Pooh from a swan whom Christopher Robin met when the whole family went to their country house at Cotchford Farm in Sussex.

By the way, this is next to the very forest that is now known to the whole world as the Hundred Acre Wood.

Why Pooh? Yes, because “because if you call him and the swan doesn’t come (which they love to do), you can pretend that Pooh said just like that...”. The toy bear was approximately two feet tall, had a light coloring and often had missing eyes.
Christopher Robin's real-life toys also included Piglet, Eeyore without a Tail, Kanga, Roo and Tigger. Milne invented the Owl and the Rabbit himself.

The toys that Christopher Robin played with are kept in the New York Public Library. In 1996, Milne's beloved teddy bear was sold at Bonham's London auction to an unknown buyer for £4,600.

The very first person in the world who was lucky enough to see Winnie the Pooh was Punch magazine cartoonist Ernest Sheppard. It was he who first illustrated Winnie the Pooh. Initially, the teddy bear and his friends were black and white, and then they became colored. And his son’s teddy bear posed for Ernest Sheppard, not Pooh at all, but “Growler” (or Grumpy).

Artist Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1976), who illustrated the book. 1976

Shepard Christmas card, Sotheby's. 2008

In total, two books were written about Winnie the Pooh: Winnie-the-Pooh (the first separate edition was published on October 14, 1926 by the London publishing house Methuen & Co) and The House at Pooh Corner (House on Pooh Corner, 1928). In addition, Milne's two collections of children's poems, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, contain several poems about Winnie the Pooh.

The entire “childhood” period of Milne’s work covers only a few years, from 1921 to 1928. He no longer returns to children's themes: Christopher Robin has grown up, and together with his matured son, the world of childhood leaves Milne's life. All that he subsequently created for children was a dramatization based on the book “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame.

Alan Alexander Milne, 1948

Adult Christopher Robin with his bride, 1948

In 1961, Disney acquired the rights to Winnie the Pooh. Walt Disney slightly modified Shepard's famous illustrations that accompanied Milne's books and released a series of Winnie the Pooh cartoons. According to Forbes magazine, Winnie the Pooh is the second most profitable character in the world, second only to Mickey Mouse. Winnie the Pooh generates $5.6 billion in revenue every year
On April 11, 2006, a star for Winnie the Pooh was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At the same time, Milne's granddaughter, Claire Milne, living in England, is trying to get her teddy bear back. Or rather, the rights to it. So far unsuccessful.

In 1960, Winnie the Pooh was brilliantly translated into Russian by Boris Zakhoder and published with illustrations by Alice Poret.

Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh

Before the publication of fairy tales about a teddy bear with sawdust in his head, Alan Milne was a serious English playwright: he wrote novels and short stories, and composed poems. The stories about “Winnie the Pooh” fulfilled the writer’s dream - they immortalized the name, but until the end of his life Milne regretted that the world would remember him exclusively for stories about the bear cub.

Childhood and youth

Alan Alexander Milne was born on January 18, 1882 in London, the third child of Jamaican-born John Vine and British mother Sarah Marie (née Hedginbotham). The father worked as the headmaster of Henley private school, and Milne's children studied there.

Alan's teacher was the future famous science fiction writer, author of the novels “The Time Machine” and “War of the Worlds.” Of the two older brothers - Kenneth and Barry - Alan was more attached to Kenneth. In his 1939 autobiography Too Late, Milne wrote:

“Ken had one advantage over me - he was good, much better than me. After consulting Dr. Murray's work, I discover that the word "good" has fourteen meanings, but none of them convey what I mean by describing Ken. And while I continue to say that he was kinder, more generous, more forgiving, more tolerant and more merciful than I was, suffice it to say that Ken was better.

Of the two of us, you would definitely prefer him. I may have surpassed my older brother in academics, sports and even appearance - as a baby he was dropped to the ground with his nose (or picked up from the ground by his nose, we never came to a consensus), but poor Ken, or old Ken, knew how to trod a path to the heart anyone."

The parents gave the boys a decent education. Alan studied at Westminster School and graduated from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in 1903 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. However, my heart was drawn to creativity.

While still in college, Alan and Kenneth wrote for the student magazine Granta. The humorous works, published under the initials AKM (Alan Kennet Milne), were noticed by the editors of the leading British humor magazine Punch. This is where the biography of Milne the writer began.

Books

After graduation, Milne began writing humorous poems, essays and plays for Punch, and 3 years later the author was hired as an assistant editor. During this time, Alan managed to make profitable contacts in literary circles. So, James Barry invited him to the Allahakbarries cricket team. At various times, Milne shared sports equipment with and other English writers and poets.

In 1905, Alan Milne released his debut novel, Lovers in London, which did not have an intricate plot or deep problems. At the center of the story is a young British man, Teddy, and his friend Amelia. Against the backdrop of London in the 1920s, they fall in love, quarrel, and dream of a happy future.

Critics received the book coolly, however, encouraging him for his sharp and topical articles in Punch. This forced Milne to leave “great” literature for a while and concentrate on what he was good at - stories and plays. But the First World War forced the playwright to put down his pen.

On 1 February 1915 Alan was called up as a lieutenant in the Royal Yorkshire Regiment. A year later, on July 7, he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and sent home for treatment. The injury prevented him from returning to the front line, and he was recruited into military intelligence to write propaganda leaflets for MI7. On February 14, 1919, Milne was fired, and a year later, when the opportunity arose to recover, he abandoned his further military career. The events of the First World War are reflected in the stories “Peace with Honor” (1934) and “War with Honor” (1940).

Milne published four plays during the war years. The first, “Wurzel-Flummery,” was written in 1917 and immediately staged at the London Noël Coward Theatre. Initially, the work had three acts, but for ease of perception it had to be reduced to two.

In the same 1917, the second novel “Once upon a time, a long time ago...” was published, which began with the words: “This is a strange book.” The work is a typical tale telling about the war between the kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia. But it turns out that this fairy tale is not for children at all.

Milne created characters that kids wouldn't want to be like. The princess is able to get out of the tower on her own without waiting for rescue, the prince, although handsome, is vain and pompous, and the villain is not so bad. An interesting fact is that the prototype of Countess Belvane - proud and arrogant, prone to melodramatic, emotional behavior - was Milne's wife, Dorothy de Selincourt.

In 1922, Milne became famous for his detective novel “The Mystery of the Red House,” written in the best traditions of Arthur Conan Doyle and. The plot centers on a murder committed under strange circumstances. American critic and journalist Alexander Woollcott called the novel "one of the best stories of all time." The work turned out to be so popular that it was reprinted 22 times in the UK.

In 1926, Alan Milne's most famous book, Winnie the Pooh, was published. The author wrote the story about the teddy bear for his son, who at the age of 4 saw a Canadian bear named Winnie at the zoo. The beloved plush toy was renamed from "Edward Bear" to - Christopher thought Winnie's fur felt like swan's down.

The remaining characters - Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo's son, Tigger - were also copied from Christopher's favorite toys. They are currently kept in the New York Public Library. Every year, an average of 750 thousand people come to see them.

Winnie the Pooh has become popular far beyond the UK. In the 1960s, a children's writer translated the stories about the bear (with the exception of two chapters of the original) into Russian and combined them into the book “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All.”

In 1969, Soyuzmultfilm released the first part of the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The bear “talked” in the voice of the famous Soviet theater and film actor. Two years later, the cartoon “Winnie the Pooh Comes to Visit” was released, and a year later - “Winnie the Pooh and the Day of Worries.” It is characteristic that Soyuzmultfilm did not have Christopher Robin, one of the main characters, a friend of Winnie the Pooh.

The success of the tale about the bear cub first pleased Alan Milne, and then angered him - from now on he was perceived not as the author of serious novels, but as the “father” of Winnie the Pooh. Critics deliberately gave negative reviews of the novels that came out after the fairy tale - “Two”, “A Very Short-lived Sensation”, “Chloe Marr”, just to read another line about Christopher Robin and the bear.

There was another reason - the son did not like the popularity that had fallen on him. Milne once said:

“I feel like I ruined Christopher Robin's life. The character should have been named Charles Robert."

Ultimately, the boy became angry with his parents for putting his childhood on public display, and stopped communicating with them. It is assumed that the family conflict was finally resolved, since Christopher Robin attended the opening ceremony of the bear monument at the London Zoo. The statue is dedicated to Alan Milne. In a photo from that day, the 61-year-old man lovingly strokes the fur of his childhood heroine.

Personal life

In 1913, Alan Milne married the goddaughter of Punch magazine editor Dorothy de Selincourt, known to her friends as Daphne. It is noteworthy that the girl agreed to marry the writer the next day after they met.

The newly-made wife turned out to be demanding and capricious, and Alan, who was in love, indulged her. Journalist Barry Gun described family relationships this way:

“If Daphne, with a capricious curl of her lips, demanded that Alan jump from the roof of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, he most likely would have done so. In any case, 32-year-old Milne volunteered for the front of the First World War, which began a year after his marriage, solely because his wife really liked the officers in uniform who flooded the city.”

Robin Christopher Milne was born on August 21, 1920. The child did not save the family from separation: in 1922, Dorothy left Alan for a foreign singer, but, unable to build a personal life with him, she returned.

Death

In 1952, the writer suffered a stroke and was unable to recover from it.

Death found Alan Milne on December 31, 1956, at the age of 74. The cause was a severe brain disease.

Bibliography

• 1905 – “Lovers in London”
• 1917 – “Once upon a time...”
• 1921 – “Mr. Pym”
• 1922 – “The Mystery of the Red House”
• 1926 – “Winnie the Pooh”
• 1928 – “House on Poohovaya Edge”
• 1931 – “Two”
• 1933 – “A very short-lived sensation”
• 1939 – “Too Late”
• 1946 – “Chloe Marr”

(1882-1956) English writer

Millions of children and adults all over the world are familiar with a cute bear named Winnie the Pooh. A fairy tale about him and his friends - Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit and others - was written by Alan Alexander Milne. There is another main character in the fairy tale - the little son of the writer Christopher Robin, who became not only a participant in this amazing fairy tale, but, strange as it may seem, one of its authors. And Winnie the Pooh was involved in the history of creating a fairy tale about himself and his friends. After all, this already pretty shabby teddy bear was the most favorite toy of the little boy Christopher Robin, who did not part with it throughout his childhood.

So Winnie the Pooh became a member of the Milne family and the main character of the fairy tale. In the end, he became so famous that he eclipsed the fame of even his creator, who is now known only because he came up with the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

Alan Alexander Milne really did not create anything more significant, despite the fact that he had other works.

He came from a family that was as proud of its ancestry as aristocrats are proud of their noble origins. All members of this family were quite extraordinary people, although they were not distinguished by their birth. Milne's great-grandfather was a mason and his grandfather a Presbyterian minister. He worked as a missionary in Jamaica, then returned to England and founded thirteen schools there,

after which he began to preach again. During his life, he never managed to save even the slightest decent amount to help his son get out into the world. He generously distributed everything he earned to poor people.

The writer's father had a hard time. He worked as an accountant at a confectionery factory, as a mechanic's assistant, and then as a teacher's assistant. In the end, he still entered the university, and after graduation he founded his own school. It was a very good educational institution. At one time, the future famous writer Herbert Wells worked there as a teacher. He and Alan Milne's father remained friends all his life. Wells later recalled Milne in his book An Essay on Autobiography.

Milne Sr. tried to give his son Alan Alexander a good education. Alan studied at Westminster School and graduated from the mathematics department of Cambridge University. During his studies, he edited the university magazine Granta and published his own humorous essays there. Milne liked literary work more than mathematics, so after graduating from university he decided to devote himself to literature. However, it was not easy to publish my works in any serious publication. It happened that editors did not even read the manuscripts that Milne delivered to the editorial offices of magazines.

Therefore, he did not believe his own eyes when one day he saw his parody “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” published in the magazine “Vanity Fair”.

And yet, the works of Alan Alexander Milne, although not often, appeared in magazines, and his name became famous. In 1906, he became editor of Punch magazine and thus was able to publish his works freely. Things were finally looking up for him. Milne got married and soon published his humoresques about sports from Punch magazine as a separate book.

During the First World War he served in a reserve signal battalion, then went to the front, but fell ill and was returned to England. For some time Alan Milne was an instructor at a boot camp, then worked in the propaganda department of the War Ministry, from where he was demobilized after the war with the rank of lieutenant.

Even during the war, he began to engage in drama. First he wrote a play for an amateur troupe of a signal battalion, and then began to create plays for professional theaters. After the war, Milne becomes a famous writer and playwright. His comedies were successful in theaters, and the detective novel “The Mystery of the Red House” was even considered a classic.

In 1920, a son, Christopher, was born into the family of Alan Milne. When the boy was one year old, he was given a teddy bear, who was named Winnie the Pooh. Then Christopher got a toy donkey, Eeyore, and a pig, Piglet. Later this company was supplemented by Kanga and Tiger, and Milne invented Owl and Rabbit for the fairy tale.

Christopher was growing up, and real performances were played out in the nursery, in which all family members took part - father, mother, little son and his toys, which in the fairy tale behaved like living beings.

Alan Alexander Milne began writing children's books for his son. At first it was poetry, and then “Winnie the Pooh” appeared. It turned out like this.

At the very beginning of the twenties, a friend of Alana Milne opened a children's magazine and asked Milne to write several poems for it. The writer refused, but still began to think about what he could write. As a result, the poem “Sonya and the Doctor” and other poems appeared, which were published as a separate book in 1924.

And then Milne remembered all the fairy tales that he had told his son and began to write them down. In 1926, the first book “Winnie the Pooh” was published, which included ten stories about the bear cub and his friends.

In 1927, a new book of children's poems by Alan Milne appeared, and in 1928, the book “The House on Pooh Edge,” which included ten more stories about Winnie the Pooh. Thus, the first book about this wonderful bear cub was published when Christopher was three years old, and the last one when he was already eight years old. In 1925, Milne purchased a large rural house with services and a large forest of 200 hectares - Cochford Farm, where the fairy tale mainly took place.

Alan Alexander Milne wrote other works for his son. He published a collection of “Stories about Christopher Robin”, “A Book to Read about Christopher Robin”, “Birthday Stories about Christopher Robin” and even such an entertaining book as “The Alphabet of Christopher Robin”. In addition to these, he wrote other short children's works.

However, Alan Milne no longer wrote about Winnie the Pooh. He even got angry when they asked him about it, and said: “If a person once wrote about a policeman, they will demand that he write only about policemen all his life.”

Everything was explained by the fact that Christopher grew up and Milne stopped writing fairy tales for him. But for some reason he didn’t want to compose them for other children. But this was the writer’s mistake, because his other works were no longer successful.

In 1938, a theatrical production based on Milne's play Sarah Simple was a complete failure. After that, he stopped writing for the theater. Gradually, readers cooled down to the writer’s humorous works, and Punch magazine, where Milne was again invited to work, even refused his services. In 1939, Alan Alexander Milne wrote his autobiography, but, after short-term success, it too was forgotten.

Alan Milne's literary fortunes left him when he was only forty-eight years old. Soon his name began to be mentioned only as the author of Winnie the Pooh. He is still known in this capacity to this day.

“Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All” is a typical family fairy tale, the kind parents usually come up with for their young children. Moreover, it reflected cases and situations that actually happened in the Milne family, only they were acted out by the animated toys of Christopher Robin and himself.

The son of the writer Christopher Milne, to whom one of the most remarkable children's works is dedicated, became a shopkeeper. At first he was engaged in grocery and haberdashery trade, and then opened a bookstore and began to prosper. At the age of 54, he published his own book, “Enchanted Places,” in which he talked about his childhood.

Then he published another book - “The Road Through the Trees”, where he again talked about his life, but as an adult. True, both of these books were not particularly successful and were interesting only because their author was involved in the creation of a wonderful fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh bear and his friends.

Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) - prose writer, poet and playwright, classic of twentieth-century literature, author of the famous "Winnie the Pooh".
English writer, Scottish by birth, Alan Alexander Milne spent his childhood in London. He studied at a small private school, owned by his father, John Milne. One of his teachers in 1889-1890 was Herbert Wells. Then he entered Westminster School, and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where from 1900 to 1903 he studied mathematics. As a student, he wrote notes for the student newspaper Grant. He usually wrote with his brother Kenneth, and they signed the notes with the name AKM. Milne's work was noticed, and the British humor magazine Punch began to collaborate with him, and Milne subsequently became an assistant editor there.
In 1913, Milne married Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (who was said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), and the marriage produced one son, Christopher.
A born pacifist, Milne was drafted into the Royal Army and served in France. He later wrote a book, Peace with Honor, in which he condemned the war.
In 1926, the first version of Little Bear with Sawdust in his Head (in English - Bear-with-very-small-brains) - "Winnie the Pooh" - appeared. The second part of the stories, "Now We Are Six," appeared in 1927, and the final part of the book, "The House on Pooh Edge," appeared in 1928. Milne never read his own Winnie the Pooh stories to his son, Christopher Robin, preferring to raise him on the works of the writer Wodehouse, beloved by Alan himself, and Christopher first read poems and stories about Pooh Bear only 60 years after their first appearance.
Before the publication of the books about Winnie the Pooh, Milne was already a fairly famous playwright, but the success of Winnie the Pooh has acquired such proportions that Milne's other works are now practically unknown. Worldwide sales of Pooh Bear books translated into 25 languages, 1924 to 1956. exceeded 7 million, and by 1996 about 20 million copies had been sold, and only by the publishing house Muffin (this figure does not include publishers in the USA, Canada and non-English-speaking countries). A 1996 poll conducted by English radio showed that the book about Winnie the Pooh took 17th place in the list of the most striking and significant works published in the twentieth century. That same year, Milne's beloved teddy bear was sold at Bonham's London auction to an unknown buyer for £4,600.
In 1952, Milne underwent brain surgery, after which he spent four years until his death at his estate in Cotchford, Sussex.

English playwright, poet, storyteller, author of classic books of English children's literature: “When We Were Little” (1924; collection of poems), “Now We Are Six” (1927), “Winnie the Pooh” (1926) and “The House at Pooh Edge” "(1928; Russian retelling by B. Zakhoder entitled "Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all", 1960).

Milne grew up in a family where children were encouraged to be creative, wrote funny poems from a young age, showed an aptitude for the exact sciences, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge to study mathematics.

During his student years, he fulfilled his long-time dream by becoming the editor of Granta magazine, for which he wrote poems and stories. As a result, Milne completely abandoned his studies and moved to London, where he began working at Punch magazine.

In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (said to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), and his only son Christopher Robin was born in 1920. By that time, Milne had managed to visit the war and write several funny plays, one of which, “Mr. Pym Passed By” (1920), was a success.

When his son was three years old, Milne began to write poems about him and for him, devoid of sentimentality and accurately reproducing children's egocentrism, fantasies and stubbornness. The enormous success of the book of poetry, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, prompted Milne to write the fairy tales Prince Rabbit (1924), The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh and The Green Door (both 1925), and in 1926 Winnie the Pooh was written. All the characters in the book (Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and Roo) except Rabbit and Owl were found in the nursery (now the toys that served as prototypes are kept in the Teddy Bear Museum in the UK), and the topography of the Forest resembles the area around Cotchford, where the family Milna spent the weekend.

Each of the characters has a memorable character and charm, and the ending of the book “The House on the Edge of Pooh” is achingly lyrical. The wild success of the Winnie the Pooh books (they were translated into twelve languages ​​and sold about fifteen million copies) eclipsed everything else Milne wrote: the detective novel The Mystery of the Red House (1922), the novels Two (1931) and Chloe Marr (1946), essays, plays and autobiographical book It's Too Late (1939).

In 1966, Walt Disney released the first animated film based on Milne's book, Winnie the Pooh. This film, just under half an hour long, tells the adventures of a boy named Christopher Robin and his favorite toy bear, Winnie the Pooh, and has been seen in films and on television by millions of children. By bringing Milne's characters to life through animation, Disney and his team of artists sought to preserve the style of Ernst Shepard's original drawings, which were as beloved as the stories themselves. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reiterman, who also directed Disney's The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood and The Aristocats.

Famous Hollywood actor Sterling Holloway voiced the role of Winnie the Pooh, and Sebastian Cabot read the text behind the scenes. The director's ten-year-old son, Bruce Reiterman, spoke for Christopher Robin. Composers Richard and Robert Sherman, who won an Oscar for their score for Mary Poppins, wrote five songs for the Pooh film. All this was done for one animated film lasting 26 minutes. Without a doubt, Winnie the Pooh and the Bee Tree has achieved widespread acclaim only because a treasure of a worldwide children's classic has been transferred with the utmost care into another form. In subsequent years, several animated sequels (including television) were released.

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