In Pooh´s footsteps to North Pole

    Who wouldn´t know

               the yellow bear

          with red t-shirt

                        named Pooh ?

(if you think you know all about Winnie the Pooh, try to pass this small quiz:

www.quotev.com/quiz/3081910/How-much-do-you-know-about-Winnie-the-Pooh/  ;)

Last week in the class of Children´ s literature we were talking about this cute animal character and it came to my mind to research more about him, just to know where he came from, because I just knew it is an older one.

I did a small research and these are the interesting facts I have found:

-the first collection of stories  was  book WINNIE-THE-POOH from 1926

-all of the books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard

-Winnie the Pooh may seem like a weird name for a bear, but it was the name of Christopher Robin Milne’s real teddy bear and probably he found the inspiration in the London Zoo, where during the 1920s was a black bear named "Winnie"

-Most of the other characters were named after Christopher Robin’s toys as well. That is, except for Owl, Rabbit and Gopher

                                                                              

-You can see all of the real plushies that inspired the characters at the New York Public Library. With one exception –Christopher Robin lost his Roo plush in the thirties, so it is missing from the collection.

-You can also visit most of the locations from the stories. The Hundred Acre Wood, Roo’s Sandpit, Poohsticks Bridget and the rest are all fictionalized names of real places in the Ashdown Forrest in Sussex, England.

The first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne was followed by the book The House at Pooh Corner, where the adventures of a teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh are connected with his friends: Piglet, a small toy pig, Eeyore,, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit.

I liked the chapter number eight from the first book, ...IN WHICH CHRISTOPHER ROBIN LEADS AN EXPOTITION TO THE NORTH POLE.

If you would be interested to read whole book, here is the page:

http://www.lib.ru/MILN/pooh.txt_with-big-pictures.html

I really loved also the video, if you don´t prefer to follow lines, right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJAJCToXGg – part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmiC6tvPZE – part 2

Directly to reading chapter 8 you can go here:

http://www.greeting-cards-4u.com/PooH/PooHBook/chap8.html

I hope you guys will enjoy it as much as me,

because at North Pole, there is not only a lot of snow! ;)

P.S.: And as many times in our classes, let´s sing together in the end, of course with Pooh ;) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbl8P4CA3BQ

Travelling and Me

Hello there!

My name is Lenka and today I would like to familiarize you with the purpose of my blog and to introduce you myself a little bit :)

I am a student from Slovakia finishing the last year of Master degree in Spanish university in Alcala de Henares. I love to travel and I believe that one day I will be a teacher, with who the students will love classes of Mathematics and English. 

Last week at our university in Spain, we were supposed to prepare a map of our reading life. The first thing which came to my mind was to include many books about travelling I have seen and I want to buy for my home library. As a high school student I loved to read the books about places I have never been at, and later on I have found out the irreplaceable “magic” moments where authors described places all around the world using the most thrilling ways of writing. This blog is going to be full of books about travelling, mostly to find it interesting for children.

Today I would like to show you one book of Allen Woodman I have seen in one book-shop in Paris. It is very cute picture book for small children about cows which felt little bit tired of the places they lived in France and they decided to go for a holiday to Paris. They loved hoofing about the Louvre or dining at Maxim´s and of course all of the magic things in Paris, but they also found out there is only one place called home. I believe this very special picture book called “The cows are going to Paris” will bring you so much fun!

See ya soon my friends! J

LENKA

Around New York with Stuart Little

Stuart Little is not such an ordinary mouse. He is very adventurous and heroic mouse living in the New York city with his family.

Stuart loves New York and keeps himself busy. He mets some problems because of his size, but everytime he solves it. This story full of adventures in New York will bring you so much fun!

The rest

of the story you can find
in the book of E. B. White from 1945.


Hope you will enjoy it as much as me! ;)