Well, yes, Ian, but I'd used "Americanised" already, and it's the way Disney pitches the stories, mostly of their own invention, at four-year-old level. Yes, all right, I take your point that that is "American".
I think Christopher Milne was rather ambivalent about the Pooh books anyway, and got rather tired of the publicity around "Christopher Robin", which made his life difficult when he was at boarding school.
Trish.----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:21 PM Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Books of My LifeI think the word you were looking for re Disney Trish, was "American". I'd love to know what christopher Milne thought of them
On 2 Jul 2013, at 21:10, Trish Talbot wrote:
Clare, Although One of our teachers in junior school read us "Winnie-the pooh", I don't think I fully appreciated it till I read it again with 2 friends when I was about thirteen. At that time I caught on to the humour, and ever since I have been a real A A Milne fan. Mind you, I did love his poems when I was a child.I find it so sad that Disney got hold of Pooh, Americanised the whole thing and made it so unsubtle (I was going to say childish, but they are children's books).Trish.----- Original Message ----- From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:38 AM Subject: [ebooktalk] Books of My LifeI felt daunted by this, and wasn't going to do it, but the books have gradually plopped into my mind, so they are probably the right ones. 1. A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, or the House at Pooh Corner, or either of the books of Pooh poetry. These were such a huge part of my childhood and my daughters' childhood that one of them has to be there. I don't generally do animals, but these are different, and really funny. You have all persuaded me that I should read Watership Down too. I read a very compelling novel by Adams called the Girl in the Swing, and have always meant to return to him. Another children's possibility from my early childhood and motherhood was the Secret Garden. 2. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. I love Jane and adore Rochester, and this is one of a very few books which I re-read from time to time, and one of very few 19th-century books with which, I'm afraid, I don't struggle. Another is the Woman in White.3. 3. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter. This is really a trilogy, and again is not likely reading for me, being historical. I have not yet felt equal to Wolf Hall etc, but this one is mediaeval and really took hold of me. Not only is the period beautifully drawn, but Kristin is a woman who could live today, though the book was written in the thirties. 4. the Lyttelton-Hart-Davis Letters. These letters were exchanged over about ten years between the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis and his old Eton housemaster, George Lyttelton, father of Humphrey. I include them because they are full of book interest and I can date a huge rise in the pitch of my voraciousness as a reader from my reading of this series of six collections of the letters from Calibre. 5. Piers Paul Read: Alive. I will have mentioned this as I read it earlier this year. It concerns the survival and rescue of the members of a Uruguayan Rugby team whose plane crashed in a remote part of the Andes. I don't often do endurance books, but I'm eternally glad that we were given this book and someone asked me to hurry it up the scanning pile. So I was wrong, not one but two non-fiction. Clare----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1432 / Virus Database: 3204/5955 - Release Date: 07/01/13
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