Exactly forty years ago - as one old book says, "in the middle of life's road" (I was then just forty years old, and now, as you can easily count, twice as old) - I met Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh was not called Winnie the Pooh then. His name was "Winnie-tze-poo". And he did not know a word of Russian - after all, he and his friends had lived all their lives in the Enchanted Forest in England. Writer A.A. Milne, who had written two books about their lives and adventures, also knew only English.
I read these books and immediately fell in love with Pooh and everyone else so much that I really wanted to introduce them to you guys.
But since they all (you guessed it?) could only speak English, which is a very, very difficult language - especially for those who don't know it - I had to do something.
I had to first learn Winnie the Pooh and his friends to speak Russian, I had to give them - Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All - new names; I had to help Pooh compose Noise Makers, Puffers, Chants and even Howlers and you never know what else ...
I assure you, it was not so easy to do all this, although it was very pleasant! But I really wanted you guys to love Pooh and All-All-All like family.
Well, now I can say - without any exaggeration! - that my hopes were justified. Over the years, millions and millions of children (and adults, especially those who are smarter) have made friends with Winnie the Pooh (and All-All-All) in our country over the years. And Winnie the Pooh himself has become a very, very Russian bear cub, and some even believe that he speaks Russian better than English. I'm not to judge.
Believe it or not, at one time he even taught our children the RUSSIAN language on the radio! There was such a transmission. Maybe your elders remember her.
And how Pooh and I have become related over the years - neither in a fairy tale to say, nor to describe with a pen!
The thing is that Pooh (and All-All-All, of course!) was so loved by us that they had to act in films, perform on the stage, and play on the stages of theaters - both simple and puppet - in different plays and even sing in opera - at the Moscow Musical Theater for Children.
And our hardworking little bear had to compose Noise Makers again and again, because the stories were new, which means that new songs were required.
I must admit that here (as you probably guess) it was not without my participation. I had to write scripts for films, plays for theaters, and even a libretto for the opera Winnie the Pooh Again. And of course, all the new Noise Makers, Puffers and Howlers Pooh composed under my direction. In a word, we did not part with him all these years, and, in the end, I began to consider Pooh the bear cub as my adopted son, and he me as his second father ...
Books about Winnie the Pooh have been published many, many times over the years. Your grandparents, dads and moms, older brothers and sisters read them. But there has never been such a publication as you are holding in your hands.
Firstly, there are all twenty true stories (and not eighteen, as it was before).
Secondly, Pooh and his friends fit into two whole books, not one. Now they are really spacious - there was enough space for Much More. Take a look at the Applications - and make sure that there is not only All-All-All, but also All-All-All!
And finally, I am sure that you will be pleased with the drawings. Especially those who have seen real cartoons about Pooh - after all, Pooh and his friends were drawn here by the same wonderful artist - E.V. Nazarov.
(Why am I talking about real cartoons? Unfortunately, in our time divorced a lot of fakes. They fake Winnie the Pooh. On television, they often show such Pooh, which you can’t call otherwise than a fake. Thank God, it is easy to distinguish it from the real one: it is completely different, and most importantly, it does not compose or sing any Noise Makers. What kind of Winnie the Pooh is this?!)
Well, perhaps, this can be finished - I seem to have said Everything-Everything-Everything that I was going to, or even more!
I leave you with Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
Your old friend
Boris Zakhoder
CHAPTER FIRST,
in which we meet Winnie the Pooh and some bees
Well, here is Winnie the Pooh.
As you can see, he descends the stairs after his friend Christopher Robin, head down, counting the steps with the back of his head: boom-boom-boom. He doesn't know any other way to get down the stairs. Sometimes, however, it seems to him that he could find some other way, if only he could stop mumbling for a minute and concentrate properly. But alas, he has no time to concentrate.
Be that as it may, now he has already gone down and is ready to meet you.
Winnie the Pooh. Very nice!
You are probably wondering why his name is so strange, and if you knew English, you would be even more surprised.
This unusual name was given to him by Christopher Robin. I must tell you that Christopher Robin once knew a swan on the pond, whom he called Pooh. It was a very appropriate name for a swan, because if you call the swan loudly: “Pu-uh! Pooh! - and he does not respond, then you can always pretend that you just shot for fun; and if you called him quietly, then everyone will think that you just blew under your breath. The swan then disappeared somewhere, but the name remained, and Christopher Robin decided to give it to his bear cub so that it would not be wasted.
And Winnie - that was the name of the best, kindest bear in the zoological garden, which Christopher Robin loved very, very much. And she loved him very, very much. Whether she was named Winnie after Pooh, or Pooh was named after her - now no one knows, even Christopher Robin's dad. Once he knew, but now he has forgotten.
In a word, the bear is now called Winnie the Pooh, and you know why.
Sometimes Winnie the Pooh likes to play something in the evening, and sometimes, especially when dad is at home, he likes to sit quietly by the fire and listen to some interesting story.
This evening…
- Dad, how about a fairy tale? asked Christopher Robin.
- What about a fairy tale? Dad asked.
- Could you tell Winnie the Pooh a fairy tale? He really wants to!
“Maybe I could,” Dad said. - And what does he want and about whom?
- Interesting, and about him, of course. He's such a teddy bear!
“I understand,” Dad said.
- So, please, daddy, tell me!
"I'll try," Dad said.
And he tried.
A long time ago - last Friday, I think - Winnie the Pooh lived alone in the woods, under the name Sanders.
- What does "lived under the name" mean? asked Christopher Robin immediately.
“It means that the plaque above the door had “Mr. Sanders” written in gold letters, and he lived under it.
"He probably didn't understand it himself," said Christopher Robin.
“But now I understand,” someone muttered in a bass voice.
"Then I'll continue," said Dad.
One day, while walking through the forest, Pooh came to a clearing. A tall, tall oak tree grew in the clearing, and at the very top of this oak tree someone buzzed loudly: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh ...
Winnie the Pooh sat on the grass under a tree, put his head in his paws and began to think.
At first he thought like this: “This is zhzhzhzhzh for a reason! In vain, no one will buzz. The tree itself cannot buzz. So, someone is buzzing around here. Why would you buzz if you're not a bee? I think so!”
Books read in childhood stay with us for the rest of our lives. These are our most faithful and best friends. They make up that necessary cozy atmosphere of memories, where it is so pleasant to dive from the full cares of adult fuss. One of the brightest characters in this virtual world is Winnie the Pooh. Books and films about him have been translated into 29 languages, but the Soviet and American Winnie the Pooh remain the two most famous characters.
Alan Alexander Milne was a well-known playwright and writer, and the book about Winnie the Pooh is far from the first and not the last in his work. Today, only literary critics can name a list of his works, and everyone knows the stories about the toy bear and his friends. The prototypes of the heroes were the toys of the writer's son. Now they are all in the New York Public Library. was presented to Robin for his first birthday, and he received the name Winnie in honor of the bear Winnipeg, with whom the boy became very friends. The second half of the name - Pooh - went to the hero from a swan that lived on a pond not far from the Milnov house.
In Russian, the story about a funny bear cub first appeared in 1958 in Lithuania. However, the translation of Boris Zakhoder received wide popularity and popular love. Looking through the English encyclopedia for children in the library, the writer came across an image of a nice teddy bear. The story delighted him so much that he sat down to translate Milne's book. In 1960, the Soviet reader picked up the book "Winnie the Pooh and All the Rest" for the first time.
Zakhoder always emphasized that he did not seek to literally translate the text of the English writer, his Winnie the Pooh is rather a free retelling, a rethinking of the original book. The translator owns a number of finds, without which we now cannot imagine Pooh. Nozzles, Puffers, Noise Makers, Shouters, and Screamers were not in the English text. Just like the famous sawdust in the bear's head, Winnie the Pooh Milne modestly described himself as a bear with "little brains."
Creatively, Zakhoder approached the translation into Russian of the names of the main characters of the book. Winnie-the-pooh turned into Winnie-the-Pooh, although according to the rules of pronunciation, he should have been called Winnie-Poo. For the Russian ear, this is not so harmonious, so Zakhoder translated it as a transliteration. Piglet was supposed to be Piglet, since that is what Alan Alexander Milne called him - Piglet. Eeyore's name is Eeyore. The Rabbit remained just a Rabbit, and all other characters also did not undergo any changes in translation.
Disney released a film adaptation of the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1966. In the interpretation of Wolfgang Reithermann, the protagonist appeared to be a kind of bumpkin - good-natured, stupid, readily recognizing his modest mental abilities. It seems that the only thing he really cares about is honey. At the same time, he does not forget to periodically sing songs about friendship, mutual assistance and other virtues. Looking through all the Disney series in a row, one gets the impression that the American Winnie the Pooh is not at all the key character in this story. Much more attention is attracted by Piglet with an eternal struggle with his fears or Eeyore with thoughtful conclusions about the expediency of being.
Even the Americans themselves admit that our Winnie the Pooh is better. Reiterman confessed to Khitruk that, despite the fact that he did not understand a word of Russian, he liked the Soviet cartoon more than his own. There is something psychedelic in the fact that our bear's legs are not attached to the body, in some clumsiness of movements, which is actually the result of an animator's mistake, mixing up the phases of the legs and arms. In addition, our Pooh is more vital than its American counterpart. He is alien to excessive moralizing, with sweet frankness he offers to go on a visit when he finds that there is nothing to eat at home. He is not averse to philosophizing and is not at all inclined to sacrifice himself to save a friend (remember the episode with the balloon and the bees).
Few people know that there is one secret that neither the Soviet nor the American Winnie the Pooh has revealed. What is his real name? After all, the bear cub Christopher Robin had a completely different name before the boy made friends with the Winnipeg bear. His name was simply Edward. Now you know the little secret of your favorite hero.
This is how fiction gave us one of the most charismatic heroes of children's literature. And does it matter which of them is better - ours or the American Winnie the Pooh, especially since both have enough fans.
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The amazing fairy tale by A. Milne about Winnie the Pooh and his friends, retelling by Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder and illustrated by Eduard Vasilyevich Nazarov, has become recognizable and beloved. Millions of children and adults consider Winnie the Pooh their Russian bear cub. But just recently he was called "Winnie-tse-Poo" and he did not know a word in Russian.
Alexander Miln, Boris Zakhoder
Winnie the Pooh
FOREWORD
Exactly forty years ago - as one old book says, "in the middle of life's road" (I was then just forty years old, and now, as you can easily count, twice as old) - I met Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh was not called Winnie the Pooh then. His name was "Winnie-tze-poo". And he did not know a word of Russian - after all, he and his friends had lived all their lives in the Enchanted Forest in England. Writer A.A. Milne, who had written two books about their lives and adventures, also knew only English.
I read these books and immediately fell in love with Pooh and everyone else so much that I really wanted to introduce them to you guys.
But since they all (you guessed it?) could only speak English, which is a very, very difficult language - especially for those who don't know it - I had to do something.
I had to first learn Winnie the Pooh and his friends to speak Russian, I had to give them - Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All - new names; I had to help Pooh compose Noise Makers, Puffers, Chants and even Howlers and you never know what else ...
I assure you, it was not so easy to do all this, although it was very pleasant! But I really wanted you guys to love Pooh and All-All-All like family.
Well, now I can say - without any exaggeration! - that my hopes were justified. Over the years, millions and millions of children (and adults, especially those who are smarter) have made friends with Winnie the Pooh (and All-All-All) in our country over the years. And Winnie the Pooh himself has become a very, very Russian bear cub, and some even believe that he speaks Russian better than English. I'm not to judge.
Believe it or not, at one time he even taught our children the RUSSIAN language on the radio! There was such a transmission. Maybe your elders remember her.
And how Pooh and I have become related over the years - neither in a fairy tale to say, nor to describe with a pen!
The thing is that Pooh (and All-All-All, of course!) was so loved by us that they had to act in films, perform on the stage, and play on the stages of theaters - both simple and puppet - in different plays and even sing in opera - at the Moscow Musical Theater for Children.
And our hardworking little bear had to compose Noise Makers again and again, because the stories were new, which means that new songs were required.
I must admit that here (as you probably guess) it was not without my participation. I had to write scripts for films, plays for theaters, and even a libretto for the opera Winnie the Pooh Again. And of course, all the new Noise Makers, Puffers and Howlers Pooh composed under my direction. In a word, we did not part with him all these years, and, in the end, I began to consider Pooh the bear cub as my adopted son, and he me as his second father ...
Books about Winnie the Pooh have been published many, many times over the years. Your grandparents, dads and moms, older brothers and sisters read them. But there has never been such a publication as you are holding in your hands.
Firstly, there are all twenty true stories (and not eighteen, as it was before).
Secondly, Pooh and his friends fit into two whole books, not one. Now they are really spacious - there was enough space for Much More. Take a look at the Applications - and make sure that there is not only All-All-All, but also All-All-All!
And finally, I am sure that you will be pleased with the drawings. Especially those who saw real cartoons about Pooh - after all, Pooh and his friends were drawn here by the same wonderful artist - E.V. Nazarov.
(Why am I talking about real cartoons? Unfortunately, in our time there are a lot of fakes. Winnie the Pooh is also fake. Pooh is often shown on television, which you can’t call otherwise than a fake. Thank God, it’s easy to distinguish it from the real one: it’s completely different , and most importantly, does not compose or sing any Noise Makers. What kind of Winnie the Pooh is this ?!)
Well, perhaps, this can be finished - I seem to have said Everything-Everything-Everything that I was going to, or even more!
I leave you with Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
Your old friend
Boris Zakhoder
CHAPTER FIRST,
in which we meet Winnie the Pooh and some bees
Well, here is Winnie the Pooh.
As you can see, he descends the stairs after his friend Christopher Robin, head down, counting the steps with the back of his head: boom-boom-boom. He doesn't know any other way to get down the stairs. Sometimes, however, it seems to him that he could find some other way, if only he could stop mumbling for a minute and concentrate properly. But alas, he has no time to concentrate.
Be that as it may, now he has already gone down and is ready to meet you.
- Winnie the Pooh. Very nice!
You are probably wondering why his name is so strange, and if you knew English, you would be even more surprised.
This unusual name was given to him by Christopher Robin. I must tell you that Christopher Robin once knew a swan on the pond, whom he called Pooh. It was a very appropriate name for a swan, because if you call the swan loudly: “Pu-uh! Pooh! - and he does not respond, then you can always pretend that you just shot for fun; and if you called him quietly, then everyone will think that you just blew under your breath. The swan then disappeared somewhere, but the name remained, and Christopher Robin decided to give it to his bear cub so that it would not be wasted.
And Winnie - that was the name of the best, kindest bear in the zoological garden, which Christopher Robin loved very, very much. And she loved him very, very much. Whether she was named Winnie after Pooh, or Pooh was named after her - now no one knows, even Christopher Robin's dad. Once he knew, but now he has forgotten.
In a word, the bear is now called Winnie the Pooh, and you know why.
Sometimes Winnie the Pooh likes to play something in the evening, and sometimes, especially when dad is at home, he likes to sit quietly by the fire and listen to some interesting story.
This evening…
- Dad, how about a fairy tale? asked Christopher Robin.
- What about a fairy tale? Dad asked.
- Could you tell Winnie the Pooh a fairy tale? He really wants to!
“Maybe I could,” Dad said. - And what does he want and about whom?
- Interesting, and about him, of course. He's such a teddy bear!
“I understand,” Dad said.
- So, please, daddy, tell me!
"I'll try," Dad said.
And he tried.
A long time ago - last Friday, I think - Winnie the Pooh lived alone in the woods, under the name Sanders.
- What does "lived under the name" mean? asked Christopher Robin immediately.
“It means that the plaque above the door had “Mr. Sanders” written in gold letters, and he lived under it.
"He probably didn't understand it himself," said Christopher Robin.
“But now I understand,” someone muttered in a bass voice.
"Then I'll continue," said Dad.
One day, while walking through the forest, Pooh came to a clearing. A tall, tall oak tree grew in the clearing, and at the very top of this oak tree someone buzzed loudly: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh ...
Winnie the Pooh sat on the grass under a tree, put his head in his paws and began to think.
At first he thought like this: “This is zhzhzhzhzh for a reason! In vain, no one will buzz. The tree itself cannot buzz. So, someone is buzzing around here. Why would you buzz if you're not a bee? I think so!”
Winnie the Pooh first of all went to one familiar puddle and properly rolled in the mud to become very, very black, like a real cloud.
Then they began to inflate the balloon, holding it together by the rope. And when the ball swelled so that it seemed that it was about to burst, Christopher Robin suddenly let go of the rope, and Winnie the Pooh flew up smoothly into the sky and stopped there - just opposite the top of the bee tree, only a little to the side.
- Hooray! shouted Christopher Robin.
- What's great? - shouted to him from the sky Winnie the Pooh. - Well, who do I look like?
- On a bear that flies in a balloon!
- Doesn't it look like a small black cloud? asked Pooh anxiously.
- Not really.
- Well, maybe it looks more like from here. And then, do you know what the bees will think of!
Unfortunately, there was no wind, and Pooh hung in the air quite still. He could smell honey, he could see honey, but, alas, he could not get honey ...
- Christopher Robin! he shouted in a whisper.
- What?
- In my opinion, the bees suspect something!
- What exactly?
- I do not know. But only, in my opinion, they behave suspiciously!
- Maybe they think you want to steal their honey?
- Maybe so. Do you know what the bees will come up with!
There was another long silence. And again Pooh's voice was heard:
- Christopher Robin!
- What?
- Do you have an umbrella at home?
- It seems there is.
- Then I ask you: bring it here and walk back and forth with it, and look at me all the time and say: “Tsk-tsk-tsk, it looks like it's going to rain!” I think then the bees will believe us better.
Well, Christopher Robin, of course, laughed to himself and thought, "Oh, you silly bear!" - but he did not say it out loud, because he loved Pooh very much.
And he went home for an umbrella.
- Finally! shouted Winnie the Pooh as soon as Christopher Robin returned. - And I'm already starting to worry. I noticed that the bees are behaving quite suspiciously!
- Open the umbrella or not?
- Open, but just wait a minute. We must act for sure. The most important thing is to deceive the queen bee. Can you see her from there?
- Not.
- Sorry, sorry. Well, then you walk around with an umbrella and say: “Tsk-tsk-tsk, it looks like it's going to rain,” and I will sing a special Tuchkina Song - the one that all the clouds in the sky probably sing ... Come on!
Christopher Robin started pacing up and down under the tree and saying that it looked like it was going to rain, and Winnie the Pooh sang this song:
I am Cloud, Cloud, Cloud,
Not a bear at all.
Oh, how nice Cloud
Fly across the sky!
Ah, in the blue-blue sky
Order and comfort
Therefore, all clouds
They sing so much fun!
But the bees, oddly enough, buzzed more and more suspiciously.
Many of them even flew out of the nest and began to fly around the cloud when she sang the second verse of the song. And one bee suddenly sat down on Cloud's nose for a minute and immediately took off again.
- Christopher - wow! - Robin! Cloud screamed.
- What?
I thought and thought and finally understood everything. These are the wrong bees!
- Yah?
- Completely wrong! And they probably make the wrong honey, right?
- Well, yes?
- Yes. So it's probably best for me to go downstairs.
- But as? asked Christopher Robin.
Winnie the Pooh just didn’t think about this yet. If he releases the rope from his paws, he will fall and thump again. He did not like this idea. Then he thought a little more, and then said:
- Christopher Robin, you must shoot down the ball with a gun. Do you have a gun with you?
- Of course, with me, - said Christopher Robin. - But if I shoot the ball, it will go bad!
“And if you don’t shoot, then I’ll be spoiled,” said Pooh.
Of course, here Christopher Robin immediately understood what to do. He aimed very carefully at the ball and fired.
- Oh oh oh! cried Winnie the Pooh.
- Didn't I hit it? asked Christopher Robin.
“It’s not that he didn’t hit at all,” said Pooh, “but just didn’t hit the ball!”
- I'm sorry, please, - said Christopher Robin and fired again.
This time he didn't miss. The air began to slowly exit the balloon, and Winnie the Pooh smoothly sank to the ground.
True, his paws were completely stiff, because he had to hang for so long, holding on to the rope. For a whole week after this incident, he could not move them, and they stuck up. If a fly landed on his nose, he had to blow it off:
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FOREWORD
Exactly forty years ago - as one old book says, "in the middle of life's road" (I was then just forty years old, and now, as you can easily count, twice as old) - I met Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh was not called Winnie the Pooh then. His name was "Winnie-tze-poo". And he did not know a word of Russian - after all, he and his friends had lived all their lives in the Enchanted Forest in England. Writer A.A. Milne, who had written two books about their lives and adventures, also knew only English.
I read these books and immediately fell in love with Pooh and everyone else so much that I really wanted to introduce them to you guys.
But since they all (you guessed it?) could only speak English, which is a very, very difficult language - especially for those who don't know it - I had to do something.
I had to first learn Winnie the Pooh and his friends to speak Russian, I had to give them - Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All - new names; I had to help Pooh compose Noise Makers, Puffers, Chants and even Howlers and you never know what else ...
I assure you, it was not so easy to do all this, although it was very pleasant! But I really wanted you guys to love Pooh and All-All-All like family.
Well, now I can say - without any exaggeration! - that my hopes were justified. Over the years, millions and millions of children (and adults, especially those who are smarter) have made friends with Winnie the Pooh (and All-All-All) in our country over the years. And Winnie the Pooh himself has become a very, very Russian bear cub, and some even believe that he speaks Russian better than English. I'm not to judge.
Believe it or not, at one time he even taught our children the RUSSIAN language on the radio! There was such a transmission. Maybe your elders remember her.
And how Pooh and I have become related over the years - neither in a fairy tale to say, nor to describe with a pen!
The thing is that Pooh (and All-All-All, of course!) was so loved by us that they had to act in films, perform on the stage, and play on the stages of theaters - both simple and puppet - in different plays and even sing in opera - at the Moscow Musical Theater for Children.
And our hardworking little bear had to compose Noise Makers again and again, because the stories were new, which means that new songs were required.
I must admit that here (as you probably guess) it was not without my participation. I had to write scripts for films, plays for theaters, and even a libretto for the opera Winnie the Pooh Again. And of course, all the new Noise Makers, Puffers and Howlers Pooh composed under my direction. In a word, we did not part with him all these years, and, in the end, I began to consider Pooh the bear cub as my adopted son, and he me as his second father ...
Books about Winnie the Pooh have been published many, many times over the years. Your grandparents, dads and moms, older brothers and sisters read them. But there has never been such a publication as you are holding in your hands.
Firstly, there are all twenty true stories (and not eighteen, as it was before).
Secondly, Pooh and his friends fit into two whole books, not one. Now they are really spacious - there was enough space for Much More. Take a look at the Applications - and make sure that there is not only All-All-All, but also All-All-All!
And finally, I am sure that you will be pleased with the drawings. Especially those who have seen real cartoons about Pooh - after all, Pooh and his friends were drawn here by the same wonderful artist - E.V. Nazarov.
(Why am I talking about real cartoons? Unfortunately, in our time divorced a lot of fakes. They fake Winnie the Pooh. On television, they often show such Pooh, which you can’t call otherwise than a fake. Thank God, it is easy to distinguish it from the real one: it is completely different, and most importantly, it does not compose or sing any Noise Makers. What kind of Winnie the Pooh is this?!)
Well, perhaps, this can be finished - I seem to have said Everything-Everything-Everything that I was going to, or even more!
I leave you with Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
Your old friend
Boris Zakhoder
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The amazing fairy tale by A. Milne about Winnie the Pooh and his friends, retelling by Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder and illustrated by Eduard Vasilyevich Nazarov, has become recognizable and beloved. Millions of children and adults consider Winnie the Pooh their Russian bear cub. But just recently he was called "Winnie-tse-Poo" and he did not know a word in Russian.
Alexander Miln, Boris Zakhoder
Winnie the Pooh
FOREWORD
Exactly forty years ago - as one old book says, "in the middle of life's road" (I was then just forty years old, and now, as you can easily count, twice as old) - I met Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh was not called Winnie the Pooh then. His name was "Winnie-tze-poo". And he did not know a word of Russian - after all, he and his friends had lived all their lives in the Enchanted Forest in England. Writer A.A. Milne, who had written two books about their lives and adventures, also knew only English.
I read these books and immediately fell in love with Pooh and everyone else so much that I really wanted to introduce them to you guys.
But since they all (you guessed it?) could only speak English, which is a very, very difficult language - especially for those who don't know it - I had to do something.
I had to first learn Winnie the Pooh and his friends to speak Russian, I had to give them - Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All - new names; I had to help Pooh compose Noise Makers, Puffers, Chants and even Howlers and you never know what else ...
I assure you, it was not so easy to do all this, although it was very pleasant! But I really wanted you guys to love Pooh and All-All-All like family.
Well, now I can say - without any exaggeration! - that my hopes were justified. Over the years, millions and millions of children (and adults, especially those who are smarter) have made friends with Winnie the Pooh (and All-All-All) in our country over the years. And Winnie the Pooh himself has become a very, very Russian bear cub, and some even believe that he speaks Russian better than English. I'm not to judge.
Believe it or not, at one time he even taught our children the RUSSIAN language on the radio! There was such a transmission. Maybe your elders remember her.
And how Pooh and I have become related over the years - neither in a fairy tale to say, nor to describe with a pen!
The thing is that Pooh (and All-All-All, of course!) was so loved by us that they had to act in films, perform on the stage, and play on the stages of theaters - both simple and puppet - in different plays and even sing in opera - at the Moscow Musical Theater for Children.
And our hardworking little bear had to compose Noise Makers again and again, because the stories were new, which means that new songs were required.
I must admit that here (as you probably guess) it was not without my participation. I had to write scripts for films, plays for theaters, and even a libretto for the opera Winnie the Pooh Again. And of course, all the new Noise Makers, Puffers and Howlers Pooh composed under my direction. In a word, we did not part with him all these years, and, in the end, I began to consider Pooh the bear cub as my adopted son, and he me as his second father ...
Books about Winnie the Pooh have been published many, many times over the years. Your grandparents, dads and moms, older brothers and sisters read them. But there has never been such a publication as you are holding in your hands.
Firstly, there are all twenty true stories (and not eighteen, as it was before).
Secondly, Pooh and his friends fit into two whole books, not one. Now they are really spacious - there was enough space for Much More. Take a look at the Applications - and make sure that there is not only All-All-All, but also All-All-All!
And finally, I am sure that you will be pleased with the drawings. Especially those who saw real cartoons about Pooh - after all, Pooh and his friends were drawn here by the same wonderful artist - E.V. Nazarov.
(Why am I talking about real cartoons? Unfortunately, in our time there are a lot of fakes. Winnie the Pooh is also fake. Pooh is often shown on television, which you can’t call otherwise than a fake. Thank God, it’s easy to distinguish it from the real one: it’s completely different , and most importantly, does not compose or sing any Noise Makers. What kind of Winnie the Pooh is this ?!)
Well, perhaps, this can be finished - I seem to have said Everything-Everything-Everything that I was going to, or even more!
I leave you with Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
Your old friend
Boris Zakhoder
CHAPTER FIRST,
in which we meet Winnie the Pooh and some bees
Well, here is Winnie the Pooh.
As you can see, he descends the stairs after his friend Christopher Robin, head down, counting the steps with the back of his head: boom-boom-boom. He doesn't know any other way to get down the stairs. Sometimes, however, it seems to him that he could find some other way, if only he could stop mumbling for a minute and concentrate properly. But alas, he has no time to concentrate.
Be that as it may, now he has already gone down and is ready to meet you.
- Winnie the Pooh. Very nice!
You are probably wondering why his name is so strange, and if you knew English, you would be even more surprised.
This unusual name was given to him by Christopher Robin. I must tell you that Christopher Robin once knew a swan on the pond, whom he called Pooh. It was a very appropriate name for a swan, because if you call the swan loudly: “Pu-uh! Pooh! - and he does not respond, then you can always pretend that you just shot for fun; and if you called him quietly, then everyone will think that you just blew under your breath. The swan then disappeared somewhere, but the name remained, and Christopher Robin decided to give it to his bear cub so that it would not be wasted.
And Winnie - that was the name of the best, kindest bear in the zoological garden, which Christopher Robin loved very, very much. And she loved him very, very much. Whether she was named Winnie after Pooh, or Pooh was named after her - now no one knows, even Christopher Robin's dad. Once he knew, but now he has forgotten.
In a word, the bear is now called Winnie the Pooh, and you know why.
Sometimes Winnie the Pooh likes to play something in the evening, and sometimes, especially when dad is at home, he likes to sit quietly by the fire and listen to some interesting story.
This evening…
- Dad, how about a fairy tale? asked Christopher Robin.
- What about a fairy tale? Dad asked.
- Could you tell Winnie the Pooh a fairy tale? He really wants to!
“Maybe I could,” Dad said. - And what does he want and about whom?
- Interesting, and about him, of course. He's such a teddy bear!
“I understand,” Dad said.
- So, please, daddy, tell me!
"I'll try," Dad said.
And he tried.
A long time ago - last Friday, I think - Winnie the Pooh lived alone in the woods, under the name Sanders.
- What does "lived under the name" mean? asked Christopher Robin immediately.
“It means that the plaque above the door had “Mr. Sanders” written in gold letters, and he lived under it.
"He probably didn't understand it himself," said Christopher Robin.
“But now I understand,” someone muttered in a bass voice.
"Then I'll continue," said Dad.
One day, while walking through the forest, Pooh came to a clearing. A tall, tall oak tree grew in the clearing, and at the very top of this oak tree someone buzzed loudly: zhzhzhzhzhzhzh ...
Winnie the Pooh sat on the grass under a tree, put his head in his paws and began to think.
At first he thought like this: “This is zhzhzhzhzh for a reason! In vain, no one will buzz. The tree itself cannot buzz. So, someone is buzzing around here. Why would you buzz if you're not a bee? I think so!”
Winnie the Pooh first of all went to one familiar puddle and properly rolled in the mud to become very, very black, like a real cloud.
Then they began to inflate the balloon, holding it together by the rope. And when the ball swelled so that it seemed that it was about to burst, Christopher Robin suddenly let go of the rope, and Winnie the Pooh flew up smoothly into the sky and stopped there - just opposite the top of the bee tree, only a little to the side.
- Hooray! shouted Christopher Robin.
- What's great? - shouted to him from the sky Winnie the Pooh. - Well, who do I look like?
- On a bear that flies in a balloon!
- Doesn't it look like a small black cloud? asked Pooh anxiously.
- Not really.
- Well, maybe it looks more like from here. And then, do you know what the bees will think of!
Unfortunately, there was no wind, and Pooh hung in the air quite still. He could smell honey, he could see honey, but, alas, he could not get honey ...
- Christopher Robin! he shouted in a whisper.
- What?
- In my opinion, the bees suspect something!
- What exactly?
- I do not know. But only, in my opinion, they behave suspiciously!
- Maybe they think you want to steal their honey?
- Maybe so. Do you know what the bees will come up with!
There was another long silence. And again Pooh's voice was heard:
- Christopher Robin!
- What?
- Do you have an umbrella at home?
- It seems there is.
- Then I ask you: bring it here and walk back and forth with it, and look at me all the time and say: “Tsk-tsk-tsk, it looks like it's going to rain!” I think then the bees will believe us better.
Well, Christopher Robin, of course, laughed to himself and thought, "Oh, you silly bear!" - but he did not say it out loud, because he loved Pooh very much.
And he went home for an umbrella.
- Finally! shouted Winnie the Pooh as soon as Christopher Robin returned. - And I'm already starting to worry. I noticed that the bees are behaving quite suspiciously!
- Open the umbrella or not?
- Open, but just wait a minute. We must act for sure. The most important thing is to deceive the queen bee. Can you see her from there?
- Not.
- Sorry, sorry. Well, then you walk around with an umbrella and say: “Tsk-tsk-tsk, it looks like it's going to rain,” and I will sing a special Tuchkina Song - the one that all the clouds in the sky probably sing ... Come on!
Christopher Robin started pacing up and down under the tree and saying that it looked like it was going to rain, and Winnie the Pooh sang this song:
I am Cloud, Cloud, Cloud,
Not a bear at all.
Oh, how nice Cloud
Fly across the sky!
Ah, in the blue-blue sky
Order and comfort
Therefore, all clouds
They sing so much fun!
But the bees, oddly enough, buzzed more and more suspiciously.
Many of them even flew out of the nest and began to fly around the cloud when she sang the second verse of the song. And one bee suddenly sat down on Cloud's nose for a minute and immediately took off again.
- Christopher - wow! - Robin! Cloud screamed.
- What?
I thought and thought and finally understood everything. These are the wrong bees!
- Yah?
- Completely wrong! And they probably make the wrong honey, right?
- Well, yes?
- Yes. So it's probably best for me to go downstairs.
- But as? asked Christopher Robin.
Winnie the Pooh just didn’t think about this yet. If he releases the rope from his paws, he will fall and thump again. He did not like this idea. Then he thought a little more, and then said:
- Christopher Robin, you must shoot down the ball with a gun. Do you have a gun with you?
- Of course, with me, - said Christopher Robin. - But if I shoot the ball, it will go bad!
“And if you don’t shoot, then I’ll be spoiled,” said Pooh.
Of course, here Christopher Robin immediately understood what to do. He aimed very carefully at the ball and fired.
- Oh oh oh! cried Winnie the Pooh.
- Didn't I hit it? asked Christopher Robin.
“It’s not that he didn’t hit at all,” said Pooh, “but just didn’t hit the ball!”
- I'm sorry, please, - said Christopher Robin and fired again.
This time he didn't miss. The air began to slowly exit the balloon, and Winnie the Pooh smoothly sank to the ground.
True, his paws were completely stiff, because he had to hang for so long, holding on to the rope. For a whole week after this incident, he could not move them, and they stuck up. If a fly landed on his nose, he had to blow it off: “Puff! Pooh!
And maybe - although I'm not sure about this - maybe it was then that he was finally called Pooh.
- Is the story over? asked Christopher Robin.
- End of this story. And there are others.
- About Pooh and about me?
- And about the Rabbit, about Piglet, and about everyone else. Don't you remember yourself?
- I remember, but when I want to remember, I forget ...
- Well, for example, once Pooh and Piglet decided to catch a Heffalump ...
- Did they catch him?
- Not.
- Where are they! After all, Pooh is quite stupid. Did I catch him?
- Well, you will hear - you will know. Christopher Robin nodded.
- You see, dad, I remember everything, but Pooh forgot, and he is very, very interested in listening again. After all, it will be a real fairy tale, and not just like that ... a memory.
- That's what I think.
Christopher Robin took a deep breath, took the cub by the hind leg and trudged to the door, dragging him along. At the threshold he turned and said:
- Will you come and watch me swim?
“Probably,” Dad said.
- And he was not very hurt when I hit him with a gun?
“Not a bit,” said Dad.
The boy nodded and left, and a minute later dad heard Winnie the Pooh coming up the stairs: boom-boom-boom.
CHAPTER TWO,
in which Winnie the Pooh went to visit, but ended up in a stalemate
One afternoon, known to his friends, and therefore now to you, Winnie the Pooh (by the way, sometimes he was simply called Pooh for short) was slowly walking through the Forest with a rather important air, muttering a new song under his breath.
He had something to be proud of - after all, he himself composed this grumbling song only this morning, doing, as usual, morning exercises in front of the mirror. I must tell you that Winnie the Pooh really wanted to lose weight and therefore diligently did gymnastics. He rose on his toes, stretched out with all his might, and at that time he sang like this:
- Tara-tara-tara-ra!
And then, when he bent down, trying to reach his toes with his front paws, he sang like this:
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