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HouseAtPoohCorner

The House at Pooh Corner is 2nd original Winnie the Pooh storybook, written by A.A. Milne and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first published in 1928. The book is presented as a series of episodes, each depicting adventures involving a particular character, including the story of a house being built for Eeyore.

The House at Pooh Corner has been adapted in numerous forms, including a deluxe edition and several audio book releases. Material from the stories of this book has also been adapted repeatedly for various Walt Disney storybook adaptations, films, and television episodes.

Plot[]

The first chapter's story is deficiently the one that gives the book its name. Pooh tells Piglet that Eeyore the donkey does not have a house. They decide to build one in the field where the donkey lives, in a corner out of the wind which Pooh names "Pooh Corner". They find a pile of sticks which they move over to "Pooh Corner" and shape into a house, not realizing that the pile of sticks is really a house that Eeyore has built for himself.

The second chapter serves as an introduction to Tigger. Pooh is woken up in the middle of the night by a growling sound. He finds an animal that he has never seen before, named Tigger, at the door. When Pooh finds out that Christopher Robin knows about Tigger and lets him stay for the night. In the morning Pooh offers Tigger some breakfast but Tigger finds that he does not like Pooh's honey. He also learns that he does not like Piglet's acorns or Eeyore's thistles but he does like the extract of malt that Kanga gives to Roo as strengthening medicine. As a result, Tigger decides to stay at Kanga and Roo's house forever.

The third chapter is about Pooh and his friends looking for a beetle named Small. As in the previous book, Piglet worries about meeting a Heffalump.

A boastful Tigger shows off to Roo by climbing a tall tree in the fourth chapter, only to find out that he does not know how to get down.

The fifth chapter reveals what Christopher Robin does in the mornings currently - he goes to school. Pooh and his friends also mistake a note from him for the Backson!

The game of Pooh Sticks is invented in the sixth chapter. Players drop sticks from one side of the bridge and then rush to the other side to see whose stick comes out from under the bridge first. Eeyore is saved from the river after Tigger bounces him in by accident.

In the seventh chapter, Rabbit decides that something has to be done to make Tigger less bouncy. He decides that he, Pooh and Piglet should take Tigger on "a long explore" to a place that he has never been to before and then lose him. When they find him the next morning he will be a changed Tigger, humbler, sadder and sorrier. However, Tigger arrives home before the other three characters, telling Roo, "It's a funny thing about Tiggers, how Tiggers never get lost." Rabbit, Pooh and Piglet get hopelessly lost. Rabbit gets separated from the other two and Pooh eventually leads Piglet home, saying that he can hear twelve jars of honey calling from his house. The following day an unchanged Tigger rescues a grateful Rabbit.

The eighth chapter takes place on a very windy day where Pooh and Piglet go to visit Owl. But Owl's house falls out of the tree and gets turned over. Piglet, the only one who is small enough to get through, is lowered on a string so that he can climb out of the letter box on the front door and go to get help.

The ninth chapter is a continuation of the eighth one. Everyone looks for a new home for Owl, but Eeyore finds what everyone agrees is the perfect house for Owl, one of them not being aware that it's Piglet's house. Piglet lets Owl take his house and moves in with Pooh.

The tenth chapter begins by saying that somehow all the animals knew that Christopher Robin will be going away to boarding school. but Eeyore writes a poem for Christopher Robin which all the animals sign and present to him in which the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood throw him a farewell party after learning that he must leave them soon. And so Christopher Robin and Pooh slip away and go to "an enchanted place" overlooking the forest. Christopher Robin tells Pooh that he will spend more time at school from now on and he can spend less time to do whatever he wants. Christopher Robin tries to tell Pooh that he's growing up now and won't be playing with his stuffed toy animals anymore. Then he tells Pooh to come to the same spot by himself overlooking the forest and think about him while he's away. In the end Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh say a long, private goodbye.

Contents[]

  1. In which a house is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore
  2. In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast
  3. In which a search is organized and Piglet nearly meets the Heffalump again.
  4. In which it is shown that Tiggers don't climb trees.
  5. In which Rabbit has a busy day and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the mornings.
  6. In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in.
  7. In which Tigger is unbounced.
  8. In which Piglet does a very grand thing.
  9. In which Eeyore finds the Wolery and Owl moves into it.
  10. In which Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an Enchanted Place and we leave them there.

Adaptions[]

Chapters 2, 8, and 9 were adapted into animation with the Disney featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Similarly, chapters 4 and 7 were adapted into Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!, while chapter 6 was adapted in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Chapter 8 was also partially adapted into an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (entitled "The Masked Offender"). Also, Chapter 10 was adapted as a closure to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, as well as in the direct-to-video movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin and Christopher Robin (2018 film) (including a shortened version of Eeyore's poem in the latter). Chapter 5 "In which Rabbit has a busy day and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the mornings" was adapted for Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (although the note Christopher Robin left said "Skull" (meaning "School") and the creature that is assumed to have kidnapped him is a Skullasaurus) as well as Winnie the Pooh (2011). Both the book and the 2011 Pooh movie has the note saying "Backson" meaning "Back Soon". And Chapters 1 and 3 are adapted in "Piglet's Big Movie".

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