Friday, October 09, 2009

The Library presentation will be on the 20th so in next weeks class we will cover compounding sentence and paraphrasing with in class exercises which will be marked and marks credited towards your fimal mark.
One of you mentioned that they might like to do their paper on Winnie the Phoo, so this might be of help to you:
1st Winnie-the-Pooh book in 80 years debuts
Last Updated: Monday, October 5, 2009 | 10:11 PM ET Comments33Recommend50
CBC News
Copies of the new Winnie-the-Pooh book Return To The Hundred Acre Wood are shown on sale in a British book shop in London on Monday. Copies of the new Winnie-the-Pooh book Return To The Hundred Acre Wood are shown on sale in a British book shop in London on Monday. (Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images)

Winnie-the-Pooh fans are heading back to the Hundred Acre Wood and their favourite characters, as the first new book featuring A.A. Milne's bumbling bear is released.

Officially authorized by the trustees of Milne's estate, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood is the first sequel to Milne's classic children's stories in more than 80 years.

The House at Pooh Corner, the last collection of Pooh stories created by Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard, first emerged in 1928.
Other sequels, new instalments of classic tales set for release this fall

* Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas, by Cary Fagan (original by Mordecai Richler); released in September.
* Dracula: The Un-Dead, written by Dacre Stoker (great grand-nephew of original author Bram Stoker); October release.
* And Another Thing, new instalment for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, by Eoin Colfer (original by Douglas Adams); October release.
* The Blythes are Quoted, by L.M. Montgomery; previously unpublished final instalment from the Anne of Green Gables series; October release.

— With files from Karin Marley

Released Monday, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood's 10 stories were penned by British author David Benedictus, a 71-year-old grandfather whose other credits include the novel You're a Big Boy Now, directing theatre productions for the stage and screen and producing a series of Pooh audio books featuring the vocal talents of actors such as Judi Dench and Stephen Fry.

It features drawings by British writer-illustrator Mark Burgess, who depicts Pooh's familiar circle of animal friends — including Piglet, Owl and Eeyore — as well as a new character, Lottie the Otter.

The tales track Christopher Robin's return from boarding school for the summer and, despite some mild changes in the young hero's appearance and the introduction of Lottie, the goal was to remain faithful to the world Milne created, Benedictus has said in interviews.

Milne, who died in 1956 and only wrote two Winnie-the-Pooh books, based the Christopher Robin character on his own son. Pooh, Milne's "silly old bear," was inspired by a real-life London Zoo bear, named "Winnie" (short for Winnipeg) that had been donated by a Canadian army veterinarian during the First World War.

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