Winnie-The-Pooh in Korean a Translation of A. A. Milne's Winnie-The-Pooh Into Korean

by A. A. Milne, Cho Kyung Sook (Translator), Sam Sloan (Introduction)

Overview

Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book in the world. Korean is a language read and spoken by eighty million people worldwide, including North and South Korea combined. Korea is perhaps unique in that there are no minority languages there. Everybody there speaks Korean. This translation of this book into Korean is by Cho Kyung Sook. Korean is a language isolate. This means that there are no known languages related to Korean. Korean has a unique writing system called Hangul. It was invented by King Sejong (1397-1450). Korean Hangul is written with partices that can be combined in different way to form syllables. Korean can be characterized as a syllabic language rather than an alphabetic language. This translation of Winnie-the-Pooh follows the original book closely, but does add the translator's own minor variations. The purpose of this book is to help Korean speakers learn English and to help English speakers learn Korean. To have a translation as close as possible to the original is the most useful. Ishi Press has reprinted translations of Winnie-the-Pooh into 18 languages thus far. We have published it in Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Urdu, Khowar, Kalasha and Latin. This translation into Korean is part of project to translate Winnie-the-Pooh into other languages. The idea is children need to learn to read at an early age and the best way to teach them to read is to provide reading materials that they find interesting. Children around the world laugh when they see Winnie-the-Pooh saying and doing silly things. Since Winnie-the-Pooh is the most popular children's book world-wide, translating this book into the different languages of the world will be conducive to teaching children to read in those languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784871872874
Publisher:	Ishi Press
Publication date:	08/28/2017
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.27(d)
Language:	Korean

About the Author

It seems strange that A. A. Milne would have not have wanted to be associated with one of literature�s most beloved characters. Having achieved some success as a playwright and novelist, he aspired to be more than only an author of children�s books.

However, Milne�s books -- Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, and the verse collections When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six -- are hardly typical of most stories for kids. They remain among the smartest of the genre, and were likely written as much for himself as for his young son, Christopher. Infused with a sly wit, they contain humor that only an adult can appreciate; indeed, some of the poems in When We Were Very Young first appeared in the satiric magazine Punch, where Milne was an editor.

Rendered by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard in quaint, warm watercolors, Pooh and friends Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Eeyore, and Piglet star in stories about playing games and helping friends in and around their home near �100-Aker Wood.� In one instance of Milne�s ironic humor, a sign outside Owl�s residence reading �PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD� is attributed to Pooh�s boy companion Christoper Robin, �who was the only one in the forest who could spell.� The books are written with sophistication and a certain amount of dry British wit, employing turns of phrase (�customary procedure,� �general remarks�) not usually found in children�s stories.

The volumes of verse range over a wider collection of themes, with Pooh appearing in just a few poems. Most of them offer a young person�s perspective on subjects such as imaginary friends, feigning illness, and going to the zoo; and it�s evident how Milne�s work prefigures that of Dr. Seuss (From Going to the Zoo: �There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons/A great big bear with wings/There�s sort of a tiny potamus/A tiny nossarus too�). Other poems feature cowardly knights, buffoonish Sirs, and other fantasy figures.

Little of Milne�s work for adults, which included the autobiography Year In, Year Out and his first novel, Lovers in London, can be easily found in print. One adult title, however, is still being published: the pleasing Gosford Park-style Red House Mystery.

Pooh, meanwhile, continues to grow as a powerful franchise, with modern-day titles, animation, and games that are almost as delightful as Milne�s original texts -- but not quite.

Hometown:

Cotchford Farm, Sussex, England

Date of Birth:

January 18, 1882

Date of Death:

November 6, 1318

Place of Birth:

Hampstead, London

Place of Death:

Cotchford Farm, Sussex, England

Education:

Trinity College, Cambridge University (mathematics), 1903

Website:

http://www.penguinputnam.com