Winnie the Pooh is a classic children’s book which was written in 1926 by Alan A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh is a story about a bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with his animal friends. The character Winnie the Pooh was a character adaption of Edward Bear from his previous work and this character was inspired by the Canadian black bear which he frequently visited at the London Zoo. In addition, this character was further more developed by Shirley Lasswell. And in 1961 Shirley Slesinger Lasswell gave Walt Disney Productions the linseed rights which lead this character to be franchise and merchandised to children. In comparison, Paddington Bear is an anthropomorphised bear from Peru. The character came to be about when Michael Bond discovered a lonely bear near Paddington Station.
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Later 1972, the Paddington Bear stuffed toy was created with the prototype of a being a Christmas present to children. This book illustrates both preposterous humor as well as satire about the British culture. By analyzing the toy books Winnie the pooh by Alan A. Milne and Paddington Bear by Michael Bond in both their historical and cultural period, we will be able to scrutinize the values and attitudes about children and family that the stories illustrate. I choose this topic because these two toy books are classical stories that I grew up with and I would like to extensively examine these classical texts in regards to how children were view as during their time period and how this was reinforced by the kind of values that children portrayed. I will be able to further analyze these classical texts by examining the texts through other literature analysis, and by looking at the text through a psychological
Later 1972, the Paddington Bear stuffed toy was created with the prototype of a being a Christmas present to children. This book illustrates both preposterous humor as well as satire about the British culture. By analyzing the toy books Winnie the pooh by Alan A. Milne and Paddington Bear by Michael Bond in both their historical and cultural period, we will be able to scrutinize the values and attitudes about children and family that the stories illustrate. I choose this topic because these two toy books are classical stories that I grew up with and I would like to extensively examine these classical texts in regards to how children were view as during their time period and how this was reinforced by the kind of values that children portrayed. I will be able to further analyze these classical texts by examining the texts through other literature analysis, and by looking at the text through a psychological