The House at Pooh Corner
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The House at Pooh Corner (1928) is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh
, written by A. A. Milne
and illustrated by E. H. Shepard
. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger
, who went on to become a prominent figure in the Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise
.
. In another story the game of Poohsticks
is invented.
Hints that Christopher Robin
is growing up, scattered throughout the book, come to a head in the final chapter, in which the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood
throw him a farewell party after learning that he must leave them for good soon. It is made obvious — though not stated explicitly — that he is starting school. In the end, as they say good-bye to Christopher Robin, they realize they will never see him again. Pooh and Christopher Robin say a long, private farewell, in which Pooh promises never to forget him.
as Pooh, Denise Bryer
as Christopher Robin (who also narrated), Hugh Lloyd
as Tigger, Penny Morrell
as Piglet, and Terry Norris
as Eeyore. This was released on a 45rpm EP.
In 1988, an audio version of the book, published by BBC Enterprises, was narrated by Alan Bennett
.
In 1997 Hodder Children's Audio released a dramatization produced by David Benedictus
with Judi Dench
, Stephen Fry
, Jane Horrocks
, Geoffrey Palmer
, Michael Williams, Robert Daws
, Sandi Toksvig
, Finty Williams
and Steven Webb
. The music was composed, directed and played by John Gould.
Chapter 2, 8, and 9 were adapted into animation with the Disney
featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
. Similarly, chapters 4 and 7 were adapted into Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
, while chapter 6 was adapted in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
. Chapter 8 was also partially adapted into an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
(entitled "The Masked Offender"). Also, the final chapter was adapted as a closure to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
, as well as in the direct-to-video movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
. However in the book, Christopher was going to boarding school and wouldn't be coming back but in the films he was just going to school and would come back at the end of the day (although Christopher Robin did start day school earlier in this book, leaving a note saying "Backson" [meaning "Back Soon".] This led the other characters to think that he had disappeared with someone called Backson.)
Chapter 2 was also released from Disney as a book, under the title "Winnie the Pooh meets Tigger".
In 1968 Jefferson Airplane
referenced the book in their song The House at Pooneil Corners, a surrealistic depiction of global nuclear war co-written by Paul Kantner
and Marty Balin
, ending with the line "Which is why a Pooh is poohing in the sun".
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner...
, written by A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...
and illustrated by E. H. Shepard
E. H. Shepard
Ernest Howard Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne....
. It is notable for the introduction of the character Tigger
Tigger
Tigger is a fictional tiger-like character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals...
, who went on to become a prominent figure in the Disney Winnie the Pooh franchise
Winnie the Pooh (Disney)
Winnie the Pooh is an American Walt Disney Company franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. The Winnie the Pooh franchise is based on A. A...
.
Plot
The title comes from a story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet build a house for EeyoreEeyore
Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh....
. In another story the game of Poohsticks
Poohsticks
Poohsticks is a game first mentioned in The House at Pooh Corner, a Winnie-the-Pooh book by A. A. Milne. It is a simple game which may be played on any bridge over running water; each player drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side...
is invented.
Hints that Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin is a character created by A. A. Milne, appearing in his popular books of poetry and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. He has subsequently appeared in Disney cartoons....
is growing up, scattered throughout the book, come to a head in the final chapter, in which the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood
Hundred Acre Wood
The Hundred Acre Wood is the fictional land inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Winnie-the-Pooh series of children's stories by author A. A. Milne...
throw him a farewell party after learning that he must leave them for good soon. It is made obvious — though not stated explicitly — that he is starting school. In the end, as they say good-bye to Christopher Robin, they realize they will never see him again. Pooh and Christopher Robin say a long, private farewell, in which Pooh promises never to forget him.
Contents
- In which a house Is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore
- In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast
- In which a search Is organdized, and Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump again
- In which it is shown That Tiggers don't climb trees
- In which Rabbit has a busy day, and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the mornings
- In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in
- In which Tigger is unbounced
- In which Piglet does a very grand thing
- In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into it
- In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, and we leave them there
Adaptions
In 1960 HMV recorded a dramatized version with songs (music by Harold Fraser-Simpson) of two episodes from the book, starring Ian CarmichaelIan Carmichael
Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.-Early life:Carmichael was born in Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA...
as Pooh, Denise Bryer
Denise Bryer
Denise Bryer is an English voice actress.Bryer voiced Billina in Disney's 1985 film Return to Oz, as well as The Junk Lady in the 1986 movie Labyrinth, and many other films. In addition to her work voice acting in film and television she also worked extensively on UK radio and children's recordings...
as Christopher Robin (who also narrated), Hugh Lloyd
Hugh Lloyd
Hugh Lewis Lloyd, MBE was an English actor who made his name in television and film comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was best known for appearances in Hugh and I and other sitcoms of the 1960s.-Life:...
as Tigger, Penny Morrell
Penny Morrell
Penny Morrell is a British actress, born on 4 February 1938. She married actor George Cole in 1964.-Selected filmography:*Reach for the Sky * Brothers in Law * Lucky Jim * Too Hot to Handle...
as Piglet, and Terry Norris
Terry Norris (actor)
Terry Norris is an Australian actor who interrupted his career for 10 years with a stint in state politics.-Acting career:...
as Eeyore. This was released on a 45rpm EP.
In 1988, an audio version of the book, published by BBC Enterprises, was narrated by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
.
In 1997 Hodder Children's Audio released a dramatization produced by David Benedictus
David Benedictus
David Benedictus is an English-Jewish writer and theatre director, best known for his novels. His most recent work is the Winnie-the-Pooh novel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood . It was the first such book in 81 years...
with Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
, Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
, Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks
Barbara Jane Horrocks is an English voice, stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Bubble" in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice....
, Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer, KCMG, AC, SC , served as the 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Fourth Labour Government...
, Michael Williams, Robert Daws
Robert Daws
Robert Daws is an English actor. He is most notable for a variety of roles he has played in television dramas.-Career:Daws played Tuppy Glossop in the early 1990s version of Jeeves and Wooster...
, Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Brigitte “Sandi” Toksvig is a Danish comedian, author and presenter on British radio and television.-Career:...
, Finty Williams
Finty Williams
Tara Cressida Frances Williams is an English actress who performs under the name Finty Williams....
and Steven Webb
Steven Webb
Steven Webb is an English actor who has been performing in theatre, television and film from the age of eight. Webb was born in Wirral, near Liverpool in the UK.-Career:...
. The music was composed, directed and played by John Gould.
Chapter 2, 8, and 9 were adapted into animation with the Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is a 1968 animated featurette based on stories from the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 20, 1968 before The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit. This was...
. Similarly, chapters 4 and 7 were adapted into Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too is a 1974 animated feature from Disney released as a double feature with The Island at the Top of the World. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Closed Mondays. It was later added as a segment to the 1977 film The Many...
, while chapter 6 was adapted in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a Disney Winnie the Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, originally released theatrically on March 11, 1983, before the 1983 re-issue of The Sword in the Stone...
. Chapter 8 was also partially adapted into an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television that ran from 1988 to 1991, inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.-Overview:...
(entitled "The Masked Offender"). Also, the final chapter was adapted as a closure to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is the 22nd full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....
, as well as in the direct-to-video movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin is a 1997 direct-to-video film from Walt Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh. The film follows Pooh and his friends on a journey to find and rescue their friend Christopher Robin from the "Skull"...
. However in the book, Christopher was going to boarding school and wouldn't be coming back but in the films he was just going to school and would come back at the end of the day (although Christopher Robin did start day school earlier in this book, leaving a note saying "Backson" [meaning "Back Soon".] This led the other characters to think that he had disappeared with someone called Backson.)
Chapter 2 was also released from Disney as a book, under the title "Winnie the Pooh meets Tigger".
In 1968 Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
referenced the book in their song The House at Pooneil Corners, a surrealistic depiction of global nuclear war co-written by Paul Kantner
Paul Kantner
Paul Lorin Kantner is an American rock musician, known for co-founding the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off band Jefferson Starship.- Overview :...
and Marty Balin
Marty Balin
Marty Balin is an American musician. He is best known as the founder and one of the lead singers of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.-Early life:Martyn Buchwald was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...
, ending with the line "Which is why a Pooh is poohing in the sun".