Презентация на тему по английскому языку Алан Александр Милн

January 18th, 1882. His father was the headmaster of

a small preparatory school. One of the teachers at the school was the famous H. G. Wells.

went to Westminster School at the age of 11

and then went on to Cambridge to become a mathematician. But he never did. Instead he became editor of the university`s journal «Granta» in which he published some of his light humorous poems.

his living as a writer. By and by London

magazines began to publish his witty works, and in 1905 he published his first book, a shilling paper-book collection of humorous essays. Aged only 24 he was given a post of assistant editor of the famous magazine «Punch», at the salary of 5 pounds a week –a lot of money at that time.

the following year when the war broke out he

joined the Army. At the front line he got ill and had to return home, to London.

21st 1920. Mrs. Milne had hoped for a girl,

to be called Rosemary… instead she presented her husband with a lovely, fair-haired and adorable son, Christopher Robin.

his birthday. The teddy bear was soon named Winnie,

after a real-life bear that lived at London Zoo.

Christopher Robin and about him. Some of the poems

became very popular songs.
One rainy summer Milne rented a house in the country. He took with him a pencil and an exercise book, and in eleven days wrote so many children`s poems that they filled a book. It was published in 1924 under the name «When We Were Very Young» and sold half a million copies!

Sussex, which they used for weekends away from London.

From this old house it was a short walk over a bridge into the Ashdown Forest where Christopher Robin and his teddy, now known by the name of «Winnie-the-Pooh» or «Pooh-bear», used to play.

A. Milne more material for his now famous book

«Winnie-the-Pooh» published in 1926. The illustrations to it were done be Ernest Shepard, who visited the Milne family in their farmhouse and draw quite a few sketches of Christopher Robin with his bear, the bridge nearby where the two played «Poohsticks», and all the well-loved Pooh characters and places.

could get inside the mind of a child. He

used his story-telling talents to describe how one little boy so loved his teddy bear that – for him at least – the toy animal came alive. After the look «Winnie-the-Pooh» A. A. Milne wrote another book of children`s verses – «Now We Are Six» and « The House at Pooh Corner» which sold to a waiting public in millions of copies. The four Pooh books and Milne`s enjoyable play «Toad of Toad Hall» are still as popular today as they were many years ago when they were written.

his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters

to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies.