Winnie the Pooh and the Windy Day (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)
by A. A. Milne
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Misfortune befalls Pooh and all his friends one windy Windsday.Tags
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I think Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is the best of the original Disney animated short films adapting the works of A. A. Milne. It has terrific songs and visual gags and an adventurous story with a windstorm and flooding. It's so wonderful, I even like the dream sequence with Heffalumps and Woozles in the middle, and I usually despise dream sequences.
It's a shame then to see it adapted so poorly into book form here, starting with the name change from "Blustery Day" to "Windy Day" and the excision of references to "Winds-day." I think this is all a result of multiple translations, because this book was probably first produced in Denmark as part of the "Anders Ands Bogklub" (a/k/a "Donald Duck Bookclub") which was imported to the show more U.S. as "Disney's Wonderful World of Reading." So the English storybook was adapted to an American movie that was translated to Danish and adapted into a Danish book that was then translated back to English for American publication. Milne's wordplay is literally lost in translation.
The pictures are fine, but the text is a bare-bones and lifeless condensation of the film and the chapters it adapts from Milne's original books. It probably doesn't help that the book is done anonymously, so the writers, translators, and artists may not feel obliged to do their best work.
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... ) show less
It's a shame then to see it adapted so poorly into book form here, starting with the name change from "Blustery Day" to "Windy Day" and the excision of references to "Winds-day." I think this is all a result of multiple translations, because this book was probably first produced in Denmark as part of the "Anders Ands Bogklub" (a/k/a "Donald Duck Bookclub") which was imported to the show more U.S. as "Disney's Wonderful World of Reading." So the English storybook was adapted to an American movie that was translated to Danish and adapted into a Danish book that was then translated back to English for American publication. Milne's wordplay is literally lost in translation.
The pictures are fine, but the text is a bare-bones and lifeless condensation of the film and the chapters it adapts from Milne's original books. It probably doesn't help that the book is done anonymously, so the writers, translators, and artists may not feel obliged to do their best work.
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... ) show less
Ugh, Disney Winnie-the-Pooh. It's basically a novelization of a Disney cartoon where all the madcap stuff that happens like everything getting knocked up in the air and landing in an implausible and funny way where nothing gets broken has to be described with humourless literalmindedness.
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A prolific writer, A. A. Milne published 35 plays, 6 novels, 3 books of verse, 3 collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction, including sketches for Punch magazine, of which he was the assistant editor. Nevertheless, his fame rests on four books for children: two of whimsical stories about the stuffed animals in his son's bedroom show more (Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner) and two of verse (When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six). All are considered classics and have been included among the Children's Literature Association's Touchstone books as the best in children's literature, on the Lewis Carroll Shelf list, and on the Choice magazine list of books for the academic library. He also wrote Toad of Toad Hall, a play based on Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, and Once upon a Time: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups, both of which are sometimes included in volumes with the four classic works. Milne had a son, Christopher Robin, who served as the model for the little boy in his children's books. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Winnie the Pooh and the Windy Day (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading) (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading)
- Original title
- Peter plys og blaesevejrsdagen (Anders And's Bogklub) (Anders And's Bogklub)
- Alternate titles
- Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Windy Day; Disney's Wonderful World of Reading: Winnie the Pooh and the Windy Day
- Original publication date
- 2000
- People/Characters
- Winnie-the-Pooh; Winnie the Pooh; Gopher [in Winnie-the-Pooh]; Piglet; Kanga; Roo (show all 13); Eeyore; Rabbit [in Winnie-the-Pooh]; Owl [in Winnie-the-Pooh]; Heffalumps; Woozles; Christopher Robin; Tigger
- Important places
- Hundred Acre Wood
- Related movies
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968 | IMDb)
- First words
- It was a very windy day in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Pooh was sitting in his Thoughtful Spot.
All of a sudden the earth in front of him began to move. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Everyone thought it was especially nice of Piglet to give his house to Owl. Also, they thought t was very heroic because Piglet loved his house more than anything in the world. So the party for Pooh was turned into a party for two heroes, Pooh and Piglet. Everybody sang and played all day.
- Original language
- Danish
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 0717264475 is shared with this book and Dinosaur (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading) by Melissa Lagonegro.
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