![]() ![]() ![]() “If you write a very good book, and someone makes a very good film about it, the book just disappears. Consider poor Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” which most kids only know via the $400-million box office adaptation, Frozen, or, for that matter, Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” What’s amazing about Pooh’s modern cartoon-y familiarity is that as big as the Magic Kingdom is, the original not only survives, but thrives as a continued source of fascination. The characters from 1928’s smash bestseller The House on Pooh Corner live side-by-side with the cartoon iterations in a way very few originals and their Disney-fied versions do. Milne stories, which continue to co-exist alongside the better-known Disney juggernaut. The NYPL’s Winnie-the-Pooh was the real-life inspiration for the original A.A. The original Pooh is amazingly still alive, well into the 21st-century, in both literary and animated forms. But he’s still Pooh, a bit matted down, a bit overly loved, but in great shape considering he’ll soon be 100 years old. The bear is not the red-shirted “tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff” found in cribs around the world, more a regular ole’ fuzzy variety, a simple knock-around bear. Together, in one cage, are a young pig, a donkey, a tiger, a kangaroo, and a bear known the world over as Winnie-the-Pooh. In the main branch of the New York Public Library, there lives a group of wild animals that call the children’s section home. ![]()
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