A.A. Milne’s The House At Pooh Corner - 914 Words

Richard Robinson, the President and CEO of Scholastic Inc., the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, said that a great children’s text contains a simple and original idea, is written with humour and makes the world more interesting. Despite being published in 1928, A.A. Milne’s The House At Pooh Corner remains a highly effective children’s text. The text meets the criteria set out by Richard Robinson and it has been able to do so through its good uses of literary elements such as style, themes and characters. Some examples of this can be linked to the works of various developmental theorists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Erik Erikson. Most children like humour, and other â€Å"funny things† in general. The†¦show more content†¦The text’s humorous style is therefore very important in drawing the attention of its readers. The themes of this text are very simple but are important and easily conveyed to the young readers. Some of the themes include sharing, cooperation and generosity. In Chapter 1, Eeyore feels sorry for himself and thinks that â€Å"The others will be sorry if I’m getting myself all cold†¦ one of them will begin to say to himself: ‘Eeyore can’t be so very much too Hot about three o’clock in the morning.’ And then it will Get About. And they’ll be Sorry.† (P9-10) But on the contrary, Pooh and Piglet realise that Eeyore does not have a house and they were quite worried so they decided to build a house for him. â€Å"‘I’ve been thinking of Eeyore†¦ poor Eeyore has nowhere to live†¦ You have a house and I have a house†¦ poor Eeyore has nothing†¦ Let’s build him a house.† (P7) This is a perfect example of the the aforementioned themes where Pooh and Piglet work together to help and care for E eyore. The remarks by Eeyore are very self-centred because he is believing that everyone should be focusing on him and that they should feel the same way he does. On the other hand, Pooh and Piglet are not so worried about themselves but are thinking about Eeyore instead. These two phenomena are described as egocentrism and â€Å"decentering† respectively in the Pre-Operations Stage of Jean Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget stated that children between the age of 2 and 7 are usually â€Å"egoShow MoreRelatedThe Beloved Childrens Storybook, Winnie the Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne1135 Words   |  5 PagesIntroduction Winnie the Pooh is a children’s storybook written by one of the most famous children’s British writers, Alan Alexander Milne in 1926. Milne’s inspiration of the character was from a stuffed animal that his son, Christopher Robin owned in the nursery. Therefore, Milne made up a special bedtime story for and about his son; it was about a â€Å"silly old bear†, some other animal friends and many pots of honey. The Pooh series, including Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner were instant bigRead MoreChildrens Literature13219 Words   |  53 Pageswith an adult author. James Barries friendship with the Lewelyn Davies boys resulted in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (1904) and the novel Peter and Wendy (1911). The bedtime stories that A.A. Milne told his son Christopher Robin were revised into Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). Although childrens literature is intended primarily for children, it is more accurate to view such texts as having dual audiences of children and adults. Adults, particularly parents, teachers, and librarians