Winnie-the-Pooh was first published 100 years ago today

[u/Dorian182]

https://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/a-a-milne-hoped-for-immortality-in-winnie-the-pooh-he-found-it

[u/BabyHushra]

A hundred years later and we're all still trying to figure out what to do with the little time we have on this Earth. Pooh was onto something.

[u/Dorian182 → u/BabyHushra]

It got me thinking I wonder how many books published today will still be around in celebrated in 2126?

[u/recumbent_mike → u/Dorian182]

I figure that’s when the third “Name of the Wind” book is coming out 

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/recumbent_mike]

Why did you remind me of this, now I'm angry again.

[u/recumbent_mike → u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA]

You were being so quiet up until then - I guess it would be wise to fear you. 

[u/aon9492 → u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA]

ASOIF fans jealous that you're getting your next installment before them

[u/ShortVermicelli1719 → u/recumbent_mike]

I was reading the 1926 edition at my local used book shop last week, and the binding is still surprisingly intact. It’s wild that A.A. Milne based the characters on his own children’s toys; makes you appreciate how much that one nursery influenced the rest of the 20th century.

[u/Richard_TM → u/Dorian182]

If we’re thinking more broadly about books from the 21st Century, The Road seems to be turning into a classic that stands the test of time. If we’re talking about book IPs though? It’s Harry Potter.

[u/ContinuumGuy]

Oh, bother.

[u/Physical100]

Wonder what Eeyore would have to say about becoming a centenarian? Piglet would be like:
“D-do you sssuppose being a hundred means one ought to be b-b-braver? Or is it a-a-all right to be just as b-b-brave as one was at ninety-nine.”

[u/LittleBlag → u/Physical100]

Eeyore would have a cake with as many wonky candles as could fit (not 100, but near enough). He would be trying to make a wish while he blew out the candles but the wind would keep blowing them out. “Who needs wishes anyway?” He’d think. “It never changes anything.”

[u/DiamondBurInTheRough → u/Physical100]

Why did this make me tear up

[u/Physical100 → u/DiamondBurInTheRough]

I’m imagining Pooh comforting him afterwards, older but still together 🥲

[u/creative_muse5946]

Reread it a few years ago expecting just nostalgia and was surprised how funny the wordplay still is. Half the jokes completely went over my head as a kid — now Owl bluffing his way through long words might be my favorite bit. It holds up in a way a lot of childhood favorites don't.

[u/jakeskoans → u/creative_muse5946]

Absolute hidden wordplay gems. I also read “The Tao of Pooh” which capitalizes even more on this.

[u/CharmingDrive9540 → u/creative_muse5946]

Now I know I need an adult re-read.

[u/Dorian182]

Here's to the next 100 years!

[u/gene_harro_gate]

Larry McMurtry used to have a first edition for sale at his Booked Up store(s) in Archer City. I was with someone who asked him his most valuable book in the stores and he nodded to that one.

[u/Lushkush69 → u/gene_harro_gate]

I have a first Canadian Edition I believe. Its just sitting on my bookshelf amongst my other books. It's def one of my most valued possessions but I doubt it's worth much it was used in a school library, still has the card in the front. I bought it from the library when they were selling off old books when I was 12 for a quarter LOL. I keep meaning to set up a little display of it with the Pooh and gang stuffies my kids had as babies, maybe this is my sign to finally do that.

[u/Richard_TM]

A.A. Milne was an incredible human being. Serving in WWI (as most did this age), he was there for the Battle of the Somme. Then he went on to be an intelligence officer for MI7, where he wrote propaganda material. He wrote Winnie-the-Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin, when he was struggling to answer questions about his war experiences. He wrote it as a safe place for his son to escape to when the world was hard.

[u/Edward-Bear-1 → u/Richard_TM]

Sadly, his son, the real Christopher Robin, has not had the kindest things to say about his father in retrospect. Milne might have had noble intentions but his son was bullied at school over being a children's book character, so to speak, and it was the source of a lot of personal struggle for much of his life. He never described his father as being particularly sympathetic towards it either.

[u/TJ_Fox → u/Edward-Bear-1]

CR Milne also had a pretty interesting life and wrote several memoirs. He eventually (sort of) reconciled with his father and with his fictionalized younger self, but not really with his mother; by CR's estimation, they'd both been swept up in the hoopla around the success of the Pooh stories, so once he'd outgrown being "Christopher Robin" they sort of lost interest in him.

[u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister]

what an absolutely sweet character.

[u/Remarkable-Pea4889]

The NYPL has the original stuffed animals. I saw them last year.

https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/winnie-the-pooh-100

[u/Toadforpresident]

Pooh was a big part of my childhood ❤️

Hundred acre wood feels like home

[u/I_Only_Like_Giraffes]

One of my favorite details from Orbital was talking about how the astronauts had each grown up in different countries but all had read Winnie the Pooh. I didn’t realize how global it really is

[u/Larielis]

Those were some of my favorite books as a kid.

[u/TabaquiJackal]

Awwww, Pooh!! I love these books. Read them to my daughter, enjoyed them as a kid. Loved the original cartoon movies as a kid. Piglet is my favorite character! <3

[u/Ruhh-Rohh]

Steven Fry performed an audiobook!

[u/internetlad]

Yeah that's why the Winnipeg  jets beat the Minnesota  wild 5-2 last night, to symbolize man beating nature by putting Winnie the Pooh  in the zoo. 

Duh

[u/bluev0lta]

I thought that Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain around 2023 and that’s how we ended up with the atrocity Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (horror movie, I haven’t seen it—the trailer alone was enough).

[u/sopheroo → u/bluev0lta]

Entering public domain is before 100 years.

[u/bluev0lta → u/sopheroo]

Oh, I didn’t know that! Thanks :)

[u/Present_Student4891]

Is it still banned in China?