The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

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• Kathryn Aalto
• Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:00-18:30
• Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

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A. A. Milne’s classic tales Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner have delighted readers for nearly a century. The stories’ characters — Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and the rest of the gang — are famous, but how much do we know about the setting, the Hundred Acre Wood? Join Kathryn Aalto, author of the New York Times best-seller, The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh, for a look at what we can learn from studying the intersection of nature and culture in Winnie-the-Pooh.

Kathryn has taken thousands of people on nostalgic and vivid journeys into one of the most iconic settings in children’s literature. Learn about Milne’s extraordinary childhood in the natural world, conflicts he experienced as a father and author, and how his creative partnership with illustrator E. H. Shepard continues to enchant countless readers. Discover places that inspired the stories along with the forest’s rare flora and fauna. Part travelogue and natural history, this talk weaves history with humor and birdsong with booklore as we learn how these masterpieces of children’s literature were created. Leave with a new understanding of how the Winnie-the-Pooh books are field guides for 21st-century Christopher Robins — hymns to those days of doing Nothing yet learning Everything.

This talk is part of the Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge series.

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