A.A. Milne is best known as the author of the ‘Winnie the Pooh’ tales. His birthday was January 18th. We had a little unit study that covered a little bit of his biography, and did an art project. Happy birthday Mr. Milne!
A few tidbits…a la Wikipedia
Born: 18 January 1882
Died: 31 January 1956
One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90.
He married Dorothy “Daphne” de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920.
Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed bear, originally named “Edward”, was renamed “Winnie-the-Pooh” after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. “The pooh” comes from a swan called “Pooh”.
The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the Forest and took his son walking there.
For the art project, I asked the boys what kind of house they would live in if they were to live in the Hundred Acre Wood. Both made treehouses.
Here is ‘R’s: (Sorry for the shadow hands…)
and ‘A’s…
